Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grab money out of my pocket and transfer it to your pocket. . . . Riots are coming. . . . This is the dawn of a new day for the farmer. . . . Peanuts- that great commodity which means so much to 18 States! . . . Calvin Coolidge would have despised this dole to the farmer. . . . We're heading straight for the rocks now. . . . There isn't enough rice grown in this country to supply a first class wedding. . . . The lamp of experience is before us. . . . God help the farmer! . . . Nobody here knows what this bill's all about. . . . It's a gigantic bonus...
...pure food man who had criticized as "poisonous" a certain corn flour produced in his Illinois district. He worked hard getting his constituents bigger & better pensions, dipped into the pork barrel for public buildings, joined log-rolling expeditions for local waterway developments. He denounced Theodore Roosevelt for the Panama "grab," flayed him as a "mob leader." Loud and tactless, he was set down and snubbed as a radical ranter by conservative Republicans and Democrats alike. Tariff Fire- In 1908 Representative Rainey struck fire from the Republican tariff. A traditional low-tariff Democrat, he charged that U. S. manufacturers, protected...
...Messrs. Fernand Pisart and Camille Gutt. When they saw the conference getting no place they announced they had booked reservations for Europe. When it became clear that Director Storke would accede to nothing, Messrs. Pisart & Gutt sailed and the conference was officially ended, all copper companies were free to grab for all they could. Roan's Storke remained alone on the battlefield, told the U. S. Press his company was not alone to blame...
...promptly took her at her word and abandoned their food as she came down stairs to sell her famous miniature nickel-plated hatchets. Students pressed around her, offering her cigars and cigarettes, and feigning great surprise when she struck their smokes wrathfully to the ground. One student made a grab at her bonnet, but was unable to detach...
Chinese were "anxious" lest the Roosevelt Administration sanctify Japan's land grab by recognizing Manchukuo...