Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sussex farmers who set upon a bailiff. After rescuing the bailiff, police charged Lady Evelyn and 36 farmers with "unlawful assembly." In Castle Hedingham Court, she protested that she had been trying to stop the riot. With the whole countryside smoldering indignation, the court adjourned the case until after harvest time, enjoined the farmers to go out and reap what they have sown-after which attempts will undoubtedly begin to collect a tithe of the harvest. In all about ?3,000,000 ($14,580,000 at par) are collected annually in tithes, two-thirds by that hoary institution called Queen...
...night last week the children of President Juan Bautista Sacasa of Nicaragua sauntered out to the Fiesta de Agosto ("Harvest Festival"), left him seated pensive at his desk...
...soil as he would have liked. Ralph went off to be an aviator, and turned out to be a good one. George was shiftless, lazy, a loud talker, always in some kind of avoidable difficulty with his crops. Olly was frail; he kept his end up at harvest, but his mind was on debating triumphs at college, a lawyer's future. Mark's second wife would have been an invalid if they could have afforded it; pain made her sharp tongue sharper. Lois May's and Lize's dreams all turned towards the city...
...every third row of cotton might be one method. Another might involve allowing a percentage of a crop to go unharvested. The farmer agreeing to cut his 1933 production would get a Government certificate on which he could borrow at the bank, the loan being repaid after the harvest when the Secretary is sure that he kept his reduction agreement...
Last week Nat Burns, Googie Allen, General Cigar and their admen, J. Walter Thompson Co., fairly dithered with excitement over a lush harvest of free publicity. It all derived from a neat stunt concerning Gracie Allen's "lodge," incredible and wholly mythical brother in which Columbia Broadcasting System happily cooperated. On every Wednesday night program for nearly a year Gracie has been piping stories of this brother who invented a way of manufacturing pennies for 3?, who printed a newspaper on Cellophane so that when dining in restaurants he could watch his hat & coat, who hurt his leg falling...