Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! All persons are commanded to keep silence on pain of imprisonment while the Senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Harold Louderback, judge of the district court of the northern district of California...
When all had gone, the old man went over to the washstand. In his hand flashed a cheap little butcher knife. The men outside the door heard him groan. Bursting in, they could see his face in the mirror, contorted with pain. He was still trying to push the knife through his ribs...
...give him nothing but a pain in the neck! Boy, and how they can do that...
...obstacle lay in proving that a bondholder had been actually damaged by being paid in paper money instead of in gold coin. Hoarders. Up last week also was the time limit set by President Roosevelt for hoarders to return to the Government all their gold holdings above $100 under pain of $10,000 fine and ten years imprisonment. Since March 6 nearly a billion dollars in gold had flowed back to the Treasury but some $700,000,000 was still in hiding. Some of this had fled abroad; some of it had been lost: much...
...talked with 15-year-old girl workers who told her they had worked six days a week, ten hours a day for wages of 57?, 98?, $1.25 and $2.50. Also they told of "week end trips to New York with their bosses" which, it was understood, were compulsory on pain of losing their jobs. Leaving Northampton. Mrs. Pinchot sped to nearby Allentown where a similar strike was in progress at the Morris Freezer shirt factory. Again Picket Pinchot. waving her hat to encourage her followers, led a band round & round the plant. The walls did not fall but Morris Freezer...