Word: drag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pages may be cited: Madman Kidnaps Auto Driver. Vodka Homicide, Dies in Auto Blaze, Air Vet Held in Matricide, Dead Beside Prayers, Find Body of Girl Severed, Battle Today on Bertolini, and Hot Knife Halts Bleeding, while corporate liquidation is taken advantage of by the merry police, who drag the river bottom in "the hope of stirring up more of the body...
...York's Democratic State Convention at Syracuse: "Tonight you and I join forces for the 1936 campaign. . . . I need not tell you there will be- there are-many false issues. In that respect, this will be no different from other campaigns. Partisans, not willing to face realities, will drag out red herrings-as they have always done-to divert attention from the trail of their own weaknesses...
There is much that is obscure and troublesome in the new tri-partite agreement between France, Britain, and the United Stats. It was, for example, confusing and irrelevent for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to drag the Russian herring across the trail and speak of a "raid" upon the pound when the Soviet Bank was merely carrying on a pre-arranged commercial transaction of minor proportions. And neither is it especially clarifying to approach the agreement from the political side, to glory in the "offensive" upon dictatorships by democratic countries...
...throwing picketers into barbwired concentration camps. This year Governor Talmadge enlarged his domination to include all State departments by refusing to summon a balky Legislature to pass an appropriation bill, proclaiming himself financial dictator of the State. That involved not only court fights, but also sending militia to drag the State Treasurer out of his office, summoning locksmiths to cut open the Treasury vaults...
...claims to its oil-cracking process, Universal fought many a long patent suit, one of them with Standard Oil of Indiana. Special master in that suit was an obscure Missouri lawyer from Sedalia named Holmes Hall. For his services he was allowed $100 per day, and he managed to drag out the proceedings for 999 days...