Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only was Governor La Follette denied renomination by a 95,000-vote majority (he defeated Governor Kohler by 127,000 votes in 1930) but big, blatant Senator John James Elaine, a La Follette "Progressive," went down into the dust before a young conservative upstart named John Bowman Chappie, editor of the Ashland Press. The La Follette dynasty had been rocked to its foundations. All that kept it from toppling out of sight was the presence of "Young Bob" in the Senate for at least another two years...
...newspaper. Instanter the editor got the sack, was expelled from the Party. But his advice is being deeply pondered. Already a change looms, and some human interest has crept into Mos cow's Evening News, which even good Party members are reading more avidly than the dry-as-dust Pravda or Izvestia...
...stricken Jean Harlow had cause to wonder whether her career in cinema would be destroyed. But without Jean Harlow, work on her new film could not proceed for long. A week after Paul Bern's death, she made herself up as a "siren," went to work in Red Dust, an Indo-Chinese film...
United has 975 cigar stores, 219 drug stores strung from coast to coast. Several years ago control passed from Whelan-Schulte interests to George Kenan and Frederick Kenan Morrow, chairman and vice president of Gold Dust Corp. Though sales have been well maintained, heavy losses piled up in United's huge real estate holdings. At the turn of the year real estate and leaseholds amounted to one-half of its consolidated assets...
...pull up every stalk of ragweed within city limits. For one day's pulling Chicago paid 25? and a ticket good for a week's room & board in a charity shelter. Sales of home air filterers perked up. If his sleeping quarters are free from dust, the mildly sensitive hayfever victim will not suffer very much during the hours he must spend in open, unfiltered air. Allergists prepared for the annual autumn peak of their specialized practice...