Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 9 Minton, Balch & Company brought out THE YELLOW BRIAR, by Patrick Slater, an auto-biographical novel with the Ontario countryside as a background. The author and his mother came over from Ireland during the potato famine and settled in Toronto when it was a booming frontier town. While there, he saw its public hangings and followed the plague cart which took his mother's dead body away. Later he went to the bush lands of upper Canada and became a part of the life of those stout-hearted Irish homesteaders...
...play an important part. The cause of the jumpy nerves of the Soviets goes far deeper and is less tangible than this; what this cause is was revealed in a recent speech by Stalin in which he warns the powers to "keep their swinish snouts out of the Soviet potato patch" and in similar pronouncements by his associates. What the Russians fear is that in case of a war with the Japanese the rest of the capitalist powers are going to gang up on Russia and engage in a good deal of international eye-gouging and groin-kicking...
Other CWA projects now in progress: 4,464 Indians to repair their own houses on Indian Reservations; 1,104 to excavate prehistoric Indian mounds for the Smithsonian Institution; 211 men to pull up seaside and swamp morning-glories, hosts of the sweet potato weevil; 198 men to remove debris from Alaskan rivers so salmon can swim up and spawn; 94 Indians to transport snowshoe rabbits to those of the Kodiak Islands that need to be restocked; 1,112 men to eradicate phony peach; a group to wash Manhattan's civic statues; unemployed colored girls to keep house for destitute families...
...talk reached a new high in Moscow fortnight ago when Dictator Stalin told the 17th Russian Communist Party Congress: "Those who attack us will get such a decisive blow that they will learn to keep their swinish snouts out of our potato patch. . . . We must take every precaution to prepare ourselves against sudden attacks in the Far East. . . . Relations between Japan and the U. S. S. R. need serious improvement. . . . One section of the military party in Japan openly advocates the necessity of war against the U. S. S. R. . . . The Japanese Government instead of calling these incendiaries to order...
Strengthened by President Roosevelt's act, Russia now feels strong enough, Comrade Stalin indicated, to withstand an assault from either the East (Japan) or the West (Germany). "We warn all such nations," said the Dictator, "not to poke their swinish snouts into the Soviet potato patch...