Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, meantime, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, privately grateful to the late Senator Huey Long and Comptroller General John R. McCarl, was preparing to drop his hot potatoes as fast as he could. Senator Long had filibustered to death the Third Deficiency Bill containing an appropriation for enforcement of potato control (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Secretary Wallace announced without apparent regret that Comptroller McCarl was unwilling to let AAA draw enforcement funds from other sources. "I found," smiled the Secretary, "that funds just didn't seem to be there. That may not sound very logical but that...
...plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...
Barton has a spasm if anyone puts a hat on the bed or whistles in the dressing room. He never fails to drop coins into blind men's cups. In Hollis, L. I. he has a big house, owns a yacht and three automobiles. His wife is his sole business manager, rehearses and prompts him, takes care of the dogs, carries his spending cash for him in her stocking...
...total is a drop of 55 from the turnout of 125 of last year, and is a third of the record 220 that appeared in 1933. In contrast is the unusual number of candidates for the Varsity under the new regime. IT is expected that most of those cut from the squad will appear in the House ranks within a week...
...made for a week, at least, to give you time to get into the swing. Sophomores and Juniors interested in the writing, and any who have bones to pick with the College or the world at large will find this a most satisfactory form of exercise, and should drop around at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow evening. If you can't write you will be entertained, if you can you'll be elected...