Word: mulecart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: The eighth child of Galena's postmaster and chief Republican little-wig, Dewey Short was named for the hero of the contemporary battle of Manila Bay. He went to work as a straw-hatted, barefoot youngster delivering ice and baggage by mulecart to pay for his education. Perhaps the most, if not the best, educated member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer...
...carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER. One drawn by two oxen announced: WE'LL GET THERE REGARDLESS OF HOOVER AND THIS AIN'T NO BULL. Goldsboro businessmen offered prizes to winners of chariot races, mulecart races, goatcart races; races of carts with pneumatic tires, carts with straw-stuffed tires, carts with no tires at all. A milling company that offered three pounds of grits to each entrant gave away more than 1,000 lb. A cinema theatre issued 300 passes to Horse Feathers...
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