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Ever do the Republican politicians lash the flanks of the Democratic Donkey with the cry of "economy". It has caught and will spread like wild-fire through the summer mouths, fanned constantly by the bellows of such outstanding political Hamlets as Hoover, Landon, Knox and Borah; never forgetting the large and well paid machines behind these personalities. Economy will, in short, probably have more to do with the election of the next President than any other single issue. Whatever the result may be, the unloading of such unfinished and dead cargo as the Florida ship-canal and the Passamaquoddy project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORPHANS IN THE STORM | 4/17/1936 | See Source »

...never wrote and it is omitted from his Collected Works. A better reason and more probable for not making him Poet Laureate was that in such an official post it is safer for the United Kingdom to have someone who confines himself to "poetic themes" and does not lash out with infuriated honesty at Boches, the Yankees and the cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King of English | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...wish to add . . . that the lash used to reign in the Near East, until the end of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1935 | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Five days later another Midwestern team made Easterners look sick & slow. Sloshing over the same field, Indiana University's four-man team finished 1, 2, 3, and 5 in National Amateur Athletic Union's 10,000-metre run. Winner was stocky Donald L. Lash, who trotted home in the excellent time of 32:42.6. Seventh was Thomas C. Ottey, intercollegiate champion in 1933 and 1934. Since the Hoosiers did not run five men, team honors fell to Millrose Athletic Association for the fifth time in six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cross Country | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...cabin. His 16,000-acre patch in South Carolina is sufficient to supply potatoes and greens for a slave family of normal appetite, besides an occasional 'possum, and the Hutton slave ship, the Hussar, the largest sailing yacht in the world, offers a pleasant escape from the driving lash of his masters, who pay no taxes and are therefor 100% free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Let's Gang Up! | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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