Word: feeding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forthright and fresh if his latest music is not. Strauss's enemies feed on his personal shortcomings. His conceit, they say, is enormous. To keep him in Vienna for four months a year, Austria gave him the Belvedere Palace, once occupied by the ill-fated Archduke Francis Ferdinand.* Visitors complain that to enter and see the composer they must first clean the soles of their shoes. Mercenary Strauss undoubtedly is. He lives carefully in his home in Garmisch near Munich. Where royalties are concerned he is a notoriously hard bargainer. At the beginning of his career he planned...
...Gentlemen, the answer comes back clear and strong. Back to the soil! Let every one cast away his yachts, racing cars and jewels, and go out into the fields and how the lowly potato, milk the noble cow, and feed the treacherous pig. Let our men best their walking sticks into ploughshares, and let our women turn in their card tables for threshing machines. Let us open our shirts at the throat and sing as the cool winds of Heaven caress our hot foreheads. Back to the soil! Live as our forefathers did! Wrest a living from the land! Such...
...large-scale assistance" to be parcelled out as follows: 1) $125,000,000 to give farmers without fields work on roads, public buildings, wells. 2) $75,000,000 to buy half-starved live stock that otherwise would die. 3) $100,000.000 to put those cattle into cans to feed the needy. 4) $100,000,000 to lend to farmers to buy hay and feed. 5) $50,000,000 to retire some 16.000.000 acres of "chronic" drought land in the Dakotas, Wyoming. Montana. 6) $50,000,000 to send young men in the drought area to special work camps...
...cell, without trial, out of public sight. Meanwhile, someone stole a bale of documents from the prosecuting attorney's office, later mailed back the rifled closet key. Finally, in 1930, Marthe went on a hunger strike to get her case into court, became a popular heroine. Forbidden to feed her forcibly in jail, police transferred her to a hospital. Then it took seven internes to hold her while they got the tube into her nostril. Left alone for a moment, the supposedly famished woman slid down a rope of sheets out the windows and went back to jail. Doctors...
...Harry L. Hopkins promised $450,000 cash to Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota. The Government also promised to buy a "substantial number" of cattle in drought areas, to ask railroads to reduce freight charges on cattle going out and feed coming into desolated states. Finally soft drizzles began throughout the Midwest, enough to lay the dust. But soaking rains were needed to save what was left of the crops and soaking rains had not yet come...