Word: goates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaker Hipel was made the goat of New-Dealer Hepburn's need to do away with some frippery or extravagance last week. "I guess you'd better cut out your Speaker's Reception," the Premier told crestfallen Mr. Hipel, then bawled at reporters: "We'll have no teacup juggling ! There may be criticism in the City of Toronto but the man out in the back concession is applauding what I'm doing...
...resort for unmarried mothers and baby bastards which this retired Congregational clergyman operated at Beulah. They suspected that Brooks let poor babies die or even had them killed, that he buried them in the dune sand among the second growth birches of his 80-acre place where brambles and goat tracks quickly erased all trace of the graves...
...attack the Exchange. Broker Dyer, a square-jawed man of 47 who cut his teeth in the sugar business as an office boy 31 years ago, declared: "My conscience is absolutely clear of any wrongdoing, and it is plainly a case of where I have been made the 'goat' to cover up errors of omission and commission of the board of governors of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. . . . Practically without exception my firm and clients were not net short of sugar, but were short of December against other sugar that could not be delivered. . . . The cause...
...celebrating his 70th birthday, tall, lean, goat-bearded General Peyton Conway March, Chief of Staff during the last months of the War, welcomed newshawks in his Washington office, told them that the U. S. should build up its Army from 136,000 to 300,000 men in preparation for war in Europe. Warned he: "The situation in Europe is so bad that anything can happen at any time. The Saar at present is a tinder box. . . . Japan will never play a hand with us unless...
...expedition will live on canned goods, supplemented by native mutton, wild rhubarb, yak, and goat milk, and whatever wild fowl, antelope, and wild asses may be shot down...