Word: etting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. Before them appeared Congressmen from farm states to state the price (i.e., upward revision on pet commodities) they would demand to support the measure on the House floor. Patiently the committee heard them ask for greater duties on casein, canned tomatoes, potatoes, live cattle, hides, blackstrap, dairy products et...
These mills had been reopened in the face of the union strike (TIME, April 15 et seg.). Their German managers demanded and received military protection from the State. Machine guns bristled on the plant roofs, manned by young Guardsmen, many of them students from the University of Tennessee. Some 800 militiamen and special deputies enforced what was, in effect, martial law through Happy Valley...
Nick Keart is a small Syrian, a "bookie" at the racetrack. His career has been interrupted by a sentence to the Washington, D. C.. jail. Well does he know Rancocas stable and its fast horses-Zev, Mei Foo, Greylag, et...
...friend of A. F.," "the friend of L'Action Française" famed royalist newspaper of which the editor is Leon Daudet, bon vivant, practical jokester, son of famed Author Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon), exile from the republic he has so consistently lampooned (TIME, June 13, 1927, et seq.). Three days after the 28 gullible deputies replied to the "Poldavian Minister," a special edition of L'Action Française appeared...
...great national oil restriction program (TIME, April 8 et seq.) opened another seam last week when Oklahoma operators decided that the sky was the limit on Oklahoma production. Prairie Oil & Gas and Sinclair Oil Corp. were listed as anti-restriction leaders, with the approach of the automobile and gas-consuming season as underlying motive for increased production. Oklahoma has had a proration agreement with an umpire (one Ray Collins) to enforce it, but oilmen turned baseball-men, cried Kill the Umpire, abolished the proration system...