Word: hitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought a rope. He wanted to hitch Jiminez' legs to a motor car and drag him through the streets. "No! No!" commanded Lieut. Villalon. "Let him lie in the streets like an animal!" The dying man stared up at them. They kicked and fouled his corpse after he went limp...
Most Southern cotton farmers will, hitch "Jude" and "Beck" to a riding "planter" equipped with a 12 in. "middle buster" and a seedbox filled with Maize or Kaffir, "gee" and "haw" aforesaid mules into their accustomed places between the rows, and at a single operation plow up the government's row of cotton and reseed the row with a feed crop...
Throughout the Conference, dominion delegates eager for a little "inflationary Roosevelt prosperity" in their own lands have been pressing Chancellor Chamberlain to hitch Empire currencies in multiple harness with the dollar (TIME. July 24). Quietly Mr. Chamberlain took offices across the way from the World Conference, placed himself at the disposal of dominion delegates and proceeded to argue them down. The final session lasted 90 minutes, ended in an Empire Declaration pledging the Mother Country, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa to strive for: 1) A further rise in Empire wholesale prices to be stimulated by Empire Government...
...Fifteen of them, all insolvent and living in the same county, could petition a Federal judge who in turn would appoint a conciliation commissioner. This official would receive the debtors' schedules, call in creditors and attempt to work out a compromise which the court would later confirm. The hitch with a farmer's debts is that he generally owes only a single creditor, the holder of the mortgage on his farm. If he refuses to dicker, the farmer is balked at the outset in producing the kind of majority agreement the court requires before discharging the debtor. Conciliation...
...Wired President Hoover for a personal conference on the St. Lawrence River development. The U. S. and Canada are negotiating a treaty on which depends New York's State-owned, State-operated power project at Massena Point. A hitch with the State Department has developed on the State's share of the cost. The Democratic nominee suggested a meeting with the Republican nominee to "hasten the initiation of this vast project which means cheap transportation . . . cheap electricity for homes, farms and industries . . . and employment for thousands of workers." Obvious was the New York Governor's intention...