Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columnist Westbrook Pegler likes California so much that he tries to reform it. Critical of San Francisco statuary, he lately set out to improve it with work of his own (see cut, col. 3). Last week he frothed at Los Angeles, home of EPIC, land of Ham & Eggs, as follows...
Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA, has established himself beyond compare as the champion name-caller of the New Deal. Last week he crossed tongues with ham-fisted Chairman Dies of the House's famed UnAmerican Committee, calling Mr. Dies "the outstanding zany* of our political history." Mr. Dies retorted that the Secretary of the Interior "literally reeks with the venom of hatred...
Hamtramck (pronounced Ham-tram-mick) is Detroit's tenderloin for foreign immigrants. It got its municipal charter in 1922 and is today Michigan's seventh city...
...already the principal outlet for U. S. farm goods, abolished duties on U. S. wheat, corn (except flat white), lard, certain canned fruits and fruit juices, and reduced by as much as one-third the duties on rice, apples, pears, other canned fruits. Britain also boosted the quota for hams and gave guarantees that ham and cotton would remain duty free...
...Clintonville, Wis. persons unnamed invited contributions of 15? a week for a ''society to give relief to folks hearing about other folks getting from $1 to $50 every week for some darn thing or other. . . ." Instead of issuing scrip, bottle caps, ham & eggs or pension checks, the society would impound all money received until 1940, then send it to the county humane society to care for members of other pension movements who have become "deaf, blind and mentally unbalanced by present political pension persiflage...