Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's Government assert that ''the tithe is property''-which of course is sacred. Tithe rates (no longer the Biblical tenth of a farmer's produce) run less than $2 per acre per year, but English farmers, faced by a 50% drop in agricultural prices since the Tithe Act of 1925, vow that "On a 1,000-acre farm the tithe costs as much as five workers are paid now!" In Kent alone last week 600 farmers were specifically menaced by actions to seize their livestock. Most Britons agree that the 1925 rates should...
French brandy distillers of whom the greatest is Cognac's dignified, art collecting Senator James ("***") Hennessy have hoped that on the repeal of the 18th Amendment they can drop their distasteful dealings with U. S. bootleggers. Last week their trade paper, Le Capital, urged them not to break off profitable clandestine relations in a hurry, warned that "an American tax of $6.40 per gallon on alcohol is provided and must become effective automatically when Prohibition is abolished. Furthermore, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act provides an additional tax of $5 per gallon on imported liquors. "There still are some days...
...over to a commitment which it is now almost impossible to renounce. It will be some time yet before the full significance of what has happened since March will be realized. N.I.R.A. has teeth. Papers and even radical journals have abandoned plain speaking and not only because circulation would drop. The administration which one no longer thinks of as democratic but rather as Roosevelt has been granted powers which exceed those of war time...
...personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became an Abolitionist. Instead of eulogies from the critics he got rotten eggs and catcalls, more than once had to drop his dignity and take to his heels. Of his anti-slavery poems Biographer Mordell says: "They . . . are too dangerous to be introduced into the schools. They still breathe that 'blasphemy' and 'sedition' of which vested interests are in mortal fear...
...night last week at Chicago's Century of Progress colored searchlights fingered an airplane circling high overhead. Presently the crowds below saw a figure dressed as Uncle Sam crawl out on its wing, drop off. Down shot Uncle Sam, the massed lights following him as their operators waited for a parachute to billow over his head. No 'chute billowed. Faster & faster fell Uncle Sam until the beams caught a silvery splash on the surface of Lake Michigan. Then they quickly swung away. Muttered the crowd: "A dummy, of course...