Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called on Franklin Roosevelt to be photographed with him for campaign purposes. They denied that they had begged him to go into Pennsylvania, make a speech, help them win. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court had put Earle on a spot by declaring unconstitutional two Earle acts in evasion of grave graft charges against his administration: 1) giving his heavily Democratic legislature priority over grand juries in such cases; 2) suspending a grand jury investigation. These decisions made it certain that the "scandal" issue against Mr. Earle & friends would stay alive & kicking till election day. With the Republican ticket headed...
Once when Fairchild was plant-hunting in the tropics, he was laid low by an infection, almost died. Two of his associates, who realized that he might have taken to his grave the rich story of his experiences, took him back to the U. S., plumped him down on a quiet New Jersey farm, furnished him with a stenographer...
...passing judgment, two salient facts must be kept in mind. First is the fact that most vote-seeking pension advocates fully realize the hare-brained qualities, the financial impossibilities of their schemes. They have seen the Colorado fiasco. They have heard the grave warnings of most reputable economists. Still they wave the pension banners, keeping strangely silent on the question of paying the bill...
...last week. AAA estimated that this year's corn crop was not so large that compulsory marketing quotas need be applied, but corn last week sold at 5? compared to 65? a year ago. The crisis in cotton, where compulsory marketing has been imposed, was so grave that Oklahoma's Thomas, a faithful New Dealer, reported last week that cotton farmers in his State were deserting their land to go on Relief...
...household. Waiting for the birth of her fifth child, she watches over her three sons and her gentle, intuitive daughter, takes no nonsense from anybody: "Nonsense and a trouble," she thinks, "but it had to go on. No other way of living if you wanted to walk to your grave cloaked in the English life...