Word: lick
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...final legislative quietus was put on the Townsend Plan when certain facts were pointed out to Southern Congressmen: if aged negro mammies and pappies drew $200 a month, none of their offspring would do a lick of work-the South would be ruined. Therefore no Southern Congressman need sign a petition to bring the Townsend Plan to the floor and if it were not brought to the floor no one need vote for it. Everyone breathed easier...
...died two days later of a heart ailment and grief. Superintendent Bistany, who credited "Ginger" with having saved his life when he was attacked by another ape, also fell ill. Explained he: "I don't know what happened to me. Ginger was my friend. He could lick 30 men." Two days after Bistany died last week a second orangutan named "Mickey," which had been so devoted to the superintendent that it was called his "private secretary," pined away to death...
What we need, according to the patriots, is a navy that can "lick Japan." Franklin D. Roosevelt is not going to stand in anybody's way when it comes to building up such a navy. It will be almost impossible for the Treasury to bear the expense, of course, but what does that matter when such important things as "national honor" and "naval parity" are at stake...
...Swasey appropriately received a planet for a present. A great benefactor of U. S. engineering (he has given $750,000 to the Engineering Foundation), white-bearded, bright-eyed Engineer Swasey has been manufacturing topnotch astronomical equipment since 1880. His firm, Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland, made the 36-inch Lick Telescope, the Naval Observatory's 26-incher, Canada's Dominion Astronomical Observatory's 72-incher, Argentine National Observatory's 60-incher, the mounting and housing for the 80-incher which will be the world's second largest when it is installed in McDonald Observatory...
...found in many instances are doing them harm." This is why Big Business is protesting the contemplated move by N.R.A. to abandon price control, despite its failure to raise prices. Big Business invented N.R.A. Big Business wants N.R.A. For businessmen simply followed the old adage: "If you can't lick 'em, jine 'em." N.R.A. is legalized monopoly...