Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Colorado's new lethal gas chamber at Canon City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby in a cell sat William Cody Kelley, shifty-eyed farmhand. Refused clemency, he prayed quietly for his pretty 23-year-old wife, his 4-month-old baby. Unable to finance an appeal, he was to be the first man executed in Colorado without a review of his case...
...fork in April 1933. The left fork leads sharply up the rise which followed abandonment of gold. The right fork, which looks like a half-forgotten detour on the price map, is an index in terms of old gold dollars. This index shows that as a group hogs, corn, cotton, sugar, many another commodity, actually continued to decline until almost the end of last year, hardly moved off bottom until this spring. But by last week the Annalist index "in U. S. dollars" was pushing into the highest ground in more than three years. Despite a sudden rush of profit...
...probably the boldest attempt ever made by a political party to pay 105,000 Democratic political election day workers out of the Federal Treasury." Under gag rule Democratic leadership sandwiched in the census bill after all members had been summoned to the floor to pass a processing tax on hogs. Shrilled Massachusetts' Republican Martin: "It is eminently fitting the leadership of the House should assign this pork bill to follow the roll call on the hog bill...
...Recently the Tokyo Miyako Shimbun gained access to bundles of examination papers of students trying for jobs in Manchukuo with the Ministry of Railways. Samples: 1) Marconi. The Crown Prince of Ethiopia; the President of France; roast hog. 2) Hindenburg. The Premier of Denmark; Capital of Germany; a business quarter in England; an Australian port where woolen is exported. 3) Movement against cooperative societies. The birth control movement as advocated by Sanger...
...giant might "blanket the dial," drowning out less powerful signals by failing to stay within its assigned channel of 700 kilocycles. For months test signals have been broadcast before daybreak while the Commission's investigators watched their frequency testers like hawks. Last month, satisfied that WLW would not hog the air, the Commission gave its authorization for the station to start regular commercial programs...