Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horse Trade. The delegates in Washington well knew, however, that their job was more than finding dry-as-dust facts. They were there to trade and they knew it. Otherwise the Japanese delegation would not have been headed by able Juitsu Kitaoka, a small, dapper diplomat with a reputation for guile. Otherwise Britain would not have sent a delegation of 210 members including Lieut. Colonel Anthony John Muirhead, Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Labor, or India her High Commissioner in London, Sir Firoz Khan Noon. Czechoslovakia would not have sent her Minister of Social Welfare Jaromir Necas, nor would...
Year ago the little art museum of Bonn on the Rhine cleared out of its cellars a collection of pictures that had been gathering dust for nearly 30 years, put them up at public auction in nearby Cologne. One grimy picture of a plump young woman in a gilt crown and scepter went up on the block and was knocked down for 700 marks ($300) to Dutch Dealer David Katz. Back to Amsterdam, after 270 years, the picture went. It was cleaned and instantly recognized as the original Juno-a bargain at $250,000. In search of some such price...
...large, swarthy man was taking a crate of rolls into the famed Adams House special kitchen. As he started down the steps, a couple of the rolls fell off, but this hardly deterred the delivery man. Stopping he scraped the few rolls together from the pavement, carefully shook the dust off them, tenderly replaced them in the crate and continued...
...That only one important New Deal law, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, is now in danger in the Courts; that the Administration apparently has a courtproof substitute for AAA in the present Soil Conservation Law, which is adequate to deal with the Dust Bowl; that the biggest project which the Supreme Court will not allow the New Deal is another NRA, and six new judges could not make that constitutional for the Supreme Court was unanimous upon...
...important social measures are now in jeopardy they were just as much so last June. Said Senator Wheeler: "The Democratic platform, dictated by the President himself, provided for meeting New Deal reforms by constitutional process. The conditions which exist in the Ohio River Valley and the Dust Bowl are identical with those which prevailed when the platform was adopted...