Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farley, whose 1940 break with the President is now final and irretrievable, was not riding trains out of love for travel or banquet chicken. In Omaha he conferred with practically every important Nebraska Democrat; at a political dinner he got in a sharp dig at appointment of Republicans to war agency jobs (a sore spot with many a Democratic veteran). In St. Louis he talked to ex-Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann and sidekick Robert Hannegan, whose local machine used to be one of the slickest in the party...
Rather their job is to dig up background information and usually-overlooked detail, so that TIME'S editors can give you the taste and smell and feel of the battles around Africa's rim -and the quality and flavor of the men who are fighting those battles and preparing for new ones and secretly working to win without battles...
...make collection harder the new rates are really punishing. Including the Victory Tax, a single person must dig up $17 for enjoying a net income (before personal exemption) of $600 a year, $107 for $1,000, $220 for $1,500, $446 for $2,500; a married man with two dependents will owe $20 if he netted. $1,200, $159 for $2,500, $485 for $4,000. $730 for $5,000. These lower-bracket liabilities represent lump sums of the sort that few lower-bracket people have ever before had to raise...
...Listen, all you cats and fine chicks, I want you to dig a mess of this jive. Because I want to hip you to my buddy-boy, Hollywood Al. He knows those fine hip styles you all like so much-that extra-wide knee 28, 29, 30 inches and that peg bottom way down to 14 inches-that are really a killer. . . . When you buy in Hollywood Al's Pants Shop you are buying from a hip cat who knows what it's all about because he's been around plenty...
...benefit by Franklin Roosevelt's tour was California's matinee idol, Governor Culbert L. Olson. He had been seen with the President frequently. But pictures-in-the-papers to prove it were scarce. With party funds low, reports had it that rich Governor Olson had to dig into his own pockets. His Republican opponent, Attorney General Earl Warren, remained a 22-to-1 favorite in the betting...