Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legislature repealed the State's $1 poll tax. That meant that the poorest white man in the State was free to vote the straight Long ticket...
Economic Tsar. Behind the Storm Troop mutiny of last fortnight lay deep-rooted discontent and some of it was economic. Germany faces, due to drought, what may be her poorest harvest in years. Potatoes had tripled in price. Meat was ominously cheap as cattle which now cost too much to feed were rashly slaughtered. Next winter, as Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg well know, the German people must go back to eating what they hate- substitute foods...
...Conservatives. He was a registered law student at the University of Berlin; that was for the Intellectuals. He was a that was for the Aristocrats. He led the notorious Fifth Storm Battalion, and spent his life in a series of fights with Communist gangsters in Berlin's poorest districts; that was for disgruntled Socialists...
General Johnson who made a speech, blunt, picturesque, reproachful, conciliatory. Excerpts: "We have been accused of a diabolical desire to impose a censorship on the Press. Considering the articles in opposition to the president's program, we certainly have made the poorest kind of mess, if control of the agencies of publicity was one of our objects...
Famed for their telescopic eyesight, grain traders long ago spotted a poor rye harvest for this July. They began accumulating large rye commitments, sat back to wait for a price rise. On April 1 they had good news. The rye crop was reported in the poorest condition in 55 years. Persistent lack of rain had parched the grain fields of the Dakotas, biggest of U.S. rye producers. Demand for rye on the other hand, normally 35,000,000 bu. per year, would be bigger, since at least 5,000,000 bu. were needed in the whiskey trade. Only one factor...