Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delays in balancing the Budget. . . . It is not a partisan issue . . . not a controversy between the President and Congress. It is an issue of the people against delays and destructive legislation which impair the credit of the United States. It is also an issue between the people and the locust swarm of lobbyists who haunt the halls of Congress seeking selfish privileges . . . misleading members as to the real views of the people by showers of propaganda. . . . This is a serious hour which demands that the people rise with stern courage above partisanship to meet the needs of our national life...
President Hoover had not been to the Capitol since Washington's Birthday, but no journalist in Washington could deny the accuracy of his "locust swarm" phrase in describing the country's legislative halls (see above...
...Bible remarks and as Shakespeare emphasized, fat locusts are good to eat, especially with wild honey. But the taste must be acquired. Last week battalions of embattled Africanders thought only of fighting their "locust plague" with blazing torches and smudges released expensively from roaring airplanes. When these efforts failed the Africanders waited gloomily for the locust swarms to settle and lay eggs, prepared to exterminate the eggs, dug trenches in which to trap crawling locusts and burn them...
Publisher Peck, while continuing to move among Brooklyn aristocrats in town and out at Locust Valley, decided to gear his paper to the white-collar middle class, and he proceeded to pour money into it. He made the Times a typical "home"' paper, unsensational, non-crusading, bursting with local news and civic pride. He initiated a costly carrier delivery service, then an innovation in Greater New York (since copied by other Brooklyn papers). In less than ten years the Times reached 100,000 circulation. The Eagle still has more than twice as much advertising, but last year it lost...
...Saturday afternoon tennis party was in full swing at Banker Harvey Dow Gibson's home near the Creek Club in Locust Valley, L. I. Mr. Gibson was wanted on the telephone. When he returned to his guests he looked thoughtful. It had been Secretary Mellon, asking Banker Gibson to be in Washington the next...