Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things the convention showed: 1) there was still plenty of life in an organization which could take such a beating, 2) factionalism had taken a heavy toll. Its membership was down from a peak 381,000 to a claimed 172,000, money on hand from $428,000 a year and a half ago to $58,000 at last year...
...although Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has since July 1938 dumped 67,000,000 bushels of wheat abroad). But last week Cordell Hull and Henry Wallace no less than Franklin Roosevelt felt that King Cotton, overloaded by a bumper 1937 crop of 19,000,000 bales, had got out of hand...
Poland's hour of unequal struggle with the Nazi giant seemed at hand. Poland with a bigger population (34,000,000), bigger area (150,000 sq. mi.), bigger standing Army (285,000) than Czecho-Slovakia was too big a nation to let fall into Germany's hands. So fortnight ago the British Government hastily offered a watery anti-aggression pact, but the hard-boiled Polish Government insisted on strict military guarantees with no ifs, ands or buts...
...dignified blond man climbed to the witness stand in the Del Rio, Tex. court house, stroked his goatee with a white, diamond-starred hand and announced:"I am the man who originated the goat gland operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth time was suing Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's publication Hygeia. Dr. Fishbein, who at the moment had his back turned on Plaintiff Brinkley, appeared unconcerned over Brinkley's demand for $250,000. Last year in Hygeia Dr. Fishbein described Brinkley as a "quack...
...Courtney Ryley Cooper, onetime newsboy, salesman, marine, circus pressagent, vaudeville actor, star reporter, popular fiction writer and good pal of J. Edgar Hoover, who calls him "the best informed man on crime in the U. S." Author Cooper was merely propositioning women in order to make a first-hand survey of U. S. white slavery. (Sponsors: the F. B. I. and the Post Office Inspection Department...