Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carter Glass had the strength of conviction to oppose the New Deal from the start. Harry Byrd, slower moving, stood by the President through the first year of the New Deal, doing such unpleasant political chores as reducing pensions of veterans, the salaries of Federal jobholders (many of whom live and vote south of the Potomac, are Mr. Byrd's constituents). But last year when the AAAmendments first came up, he balked. He led the fight that kept them from passage. Before the summer was out he moved over into the camp of his fellow Virginian Carter Glass. "There...
...instead of declined. Big bettors and system bettors prefer to bet against bookmakers because their odds, unlike pari-mutuel odds, are stable and their bets untaxed. A list of major U. S. bookmakers would include, besides Shaw and Kearney, the names of at least a half dozen men who live handsomely on their bettors...
...part, I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character, and does not make his living honestly. . . . With all this injustice, he is never a good case, but, like those among I men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor. Besides, he is a rank coward, the little Kingbird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly, and drives him from the district...
...four robustious Mills brothers live in staid, suburban Oak Park, where they were raised. Their father who founded the company in 1889 had the distinction of having once cornered the Spanish peanut market and annoyed his less hearty neighbors by keeping a herd of cows on his broad lawns. In winter the Brothers Mills dispatch their jointly-owned yacht Minoco (after their company; to Florida where they continue their fun-making while fishing. Once they made a composite photograph, showing the heads of the four brothers on bodies of more fortunate fishermen...
CONDEMNED TO LIVE-Johann Rabener...