Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austrian monarchists, flocking to an exhibition in Vienna of relics of the late great Emperor Franz Josef I, stared at a tray of cigar butts, badly chewed and bearing this label: "Certified by his valet, Ketterl, to have been smoked by His Majesty on the 12th of August...
...mouthed wire contrivances baited with corn, catching up to 40 duck at one haul. Wardens have lately captured three 8-ft., home-made cannon which fire 2 Ib. of shot, kill up to 300 duck at a blast. Trappers ship out between 200.000 and 400.000 duck per year under label of seafood, are said to operate through a syndicate which smuggles the duck into city markets where they are presumably bought by individuals and clubs...
...Democratic Party has 69 Senators and 319 Representatives in Congress but the New Deal never had so many. The New Deal's laws have been passed by a combination of the progressives of all parties and by Democrats loyal to the New Deal because it bears their party label. Many a Democrat has put party loyalty above his own convictions but today such loyalists as Vice President Garner, Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison find it hard to hold together the coalition of New Dealers and Democrats. For at heart the biggest bloc of Democrats still prefers states...
...tabloid mind, piously supposed to be plebeian, is no respecter of family. Last week, if further proof were needed, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. hastened to clinch the matter. Scion of a name that in three generations has become legendary to U. S. gumchewers as the label of aristocratic wealth, Author Vanderbilt did his feebly sensational best to throw his tribe into scareheads. It was his tenth book; the only real news about it was that smart Publishers Simon & Schuster were bringing...
...Land. Mr. Nathan seems to be protesting that there is no such thing as the typical Jew, that as a race they, too, have their class differences and tend to take on characteristics dictated by different environments; that, in short, it is idiotic to set the Semitic nation apart, label it, and try to dispose of it with one gesture...