Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might join with the G. O. P. for organization purposes but his vote would no longer be the balance of power. Democratic chances were also enhanced by mutterings from Wisconsin where eight "Progressive" Republicans, under the leadership of cross-eyed, frock-coated little John Mandt Nelson, announced they would ditch their party on the organization vote unless G. O. P. leaders promised to relax the "gag rule" of debate and allow floor votes on pet insurgent measures. Even long-legged, grinning John Quillin Tilson, last year's Republican floor leader and now a -candidate for the G. O. P. Speakership...
...food dear; the poor got poorer steadily. Susan's parents read the Bible but had never heard of birth control: their steadily increasing family were just so many Acts of God. Susan's mother died in childbed, her father came to a bad end in a wayside ditch. Susan and the rest of them went on the parish, but she and her sister Tamar soon got jobs on a good farm, had three square meals a day for the first time in their lives...
...tale has been told. Early in 1930 when John Pope, brilliant young member of the Stock Exchange, made an exhaustive study of Simmons Co. and found its immediate prospects none too good, and when heavy sales poured into the stock, President Simmons decided to support it to the last ditch. After all his millions failed to hold it he gave up. Son "Zammie" then approached him (according to the tale) and said some thing to this effect: "Dad, I knew you were wrong in trying to hold the stock up. I hope you won't be sore when...
When President Poole finished speaking, the Mercantile Exchange members decided to fight this type of thing "to the last ditch." They wrote to associates, friends and correspondents all over the U. S. about the "outrage." President Poole communicated with Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Chairman Stone of the Federal Farm Board, also the Federal Trade Commission...
...four Hoovercade cars finally got around it. The last car, driven by Frank Connor of the New York Herald Tribune, started to go around at 50 m. p. h. when a rear wheel skidded and the bus sent Connor's machine spinning over & over into the ditch. Connor's wife broke her collarbone, suffered other injuries. Her husband got off with bruises. ¶Despite the Hoover debt holiday. Germany teetered all week on the edge of financial collapse (see p. 20). President Hoover announced that Germany's rescue would have to be accomplished privately or abroad, that...