Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Columbus, John William Bricker sweated to send his first Legislature home with a record worthy of a Presidential prospect. His biggest chore: to get a $9,250,000 Relief appropriation passed without having to impose new taxes, which would violate his campaign pledges. His biggest asset, other than his own vigor and mien, is the fact that his predecessor was bumbling Democrat Martin Luther Davey, whose administration thoroughly fed up Ohioans of all parties. Last week Governor Bricker signed one of several bills designed to oust Davey holdovers. His latest "ripper" ejected from the State parole board...
Over the U. S. last week hung the prospect of industrial war on a frightful scale. In a ballroom on the 19th floor of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, a onetime college professor in Alabama addressed the only men in the U. S. who could avert this calamity...
...Fourth Dimension.- It is a rambling essay on democracy, British-French friendship, German aggression, which ends abruptly with a suggestion that only Poland bars Germany's path to the East. Typical Augur interpretation: Mussolini adopted anti-Semitism to make Italians racially conscious because he was horrified at the prospect of pickaninnies of Italian descent in Ethiopia...
Because his mood was ornery, hers kittenish, an elephant named Bill last August butted his 3,000-lb. mate, Hilda, into a 14-ft.-deep moat at their Prospect Park (Brooklyn) home. Death shortly came to Hilda. The fall had fractured her spine...
...jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till I get out'n dis shape...