Word: lots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cream of the jest to these taxpayers was that, as is customary, they will receive not only their money back but interest on it at 6%-a lot bigger return than they could have got if they had invested in bonds...
...disciples of Moses' monotheism, know history and are hardly surprised at the symptoms of present society. Nonsurprising, but tragical indeed, is the lot of a perpetual scapegoat...
...against him, last April. Because in the Strecker case, for which this case was delayed, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that temporary Communism, since discontinued, is not a deportable offense (TIME, April 24). Running the Bridges defense was a lady veteran of the Strecker fight, and of a lot of other celebrated "liberal" cases, notably those of Angelo Herndon, the Scottsboro Boys and John Strachey. She was Carol Weiss King, 44, a short, swart, athletic Manhattan widow with bushy black eyebrows and thick eyeglasses, a specialist in labor and radical defense work, particularly alien deportations. Examiner Landis was stern...
Roomers in the tenement at No. 328 Henry Street, on Manhattan's lower East Side, were bothered a lot by Walter Ferguson, 45, an unemployed handy man who lived on the third floor. He had religious fits. He shouted a lot, preached the doctrines of Father Coughlin. The only person who could quiet him was Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Schneider, 55, a midget who lived on the fourth floor...
...road for three more years, went to Kansas City, studied law, was admitted lo the bar. He quit the law because all the lawyers he saw were drunk and a newspaperman told him that if he wrote he would starve to death but, meantime, would always have a lot of fun. He founded a magazine called Plain Talk, which was suppressed for inciting race troubles. So he changed its name to The Pitchfork "because the pitchfork is the poor man's implement; you can fight with it or work with it." When he was ordered never again to publish...