Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Examples of remote control which made Albany last week's capital of the U. S.: Taxation, Newsmen pardonably assumed that Chairman Collier of the House Ways & Means Committee was speaking with the sanction of the President-elect when he declared: "I'd rather have the dentist pull my back teeth than support a sales tax, but I don't see any other alternative if we're going to balance the Budget." Chimed in Speaker Garner who as Vice President-elect is supposed to know the Roosevelt mind: "If it is necessary to have a manufacturers...
...boomed Judge Roos at Johannesburg, "that neither General Smuts nor Premier Hertzog is capable of founding a coalition to pull the country out of the muck! If they could I should not be in the arena. As things stand, here...
...product that should be stressed is hot milk in cold weather. ... It helps build up protection against colds. . . . "Just before retiring is a good time for hot milk. You take a glass of hot milk, sip slowly, then make one last readjustment of the pillows, snap out the light, pull the coverlets around your shoulders, give a little sigh, the sigh isn't absolutely necessary but usually is done, and the chances are greatly in favor of a good night's slumber descending before you have time to pick up again the count of sheep where you left...
...post office, a story started to the effect that he was a brother of the Vice President and that Half-Sister Dolly Gann was largest Severin stockholder. Because Severin Co. averages two or three big post office contracts a year, rival contractors talked darkly of "Washington pull." Vice President Curtis indignantly denied that the superintendent at Newark was his relative "in any shape or form, near or distant" or that any of his family was interested in the Severin concern...
...Within ten years we can pull out of this business and put our equipment in private hands with the assurance that railroads shall not again strangle waterways transportation to death. . . . The fight against me seems to be made by men who don't know West Point teaches honor, duty, country. If I couldn't laugh at these attacks, I guess I'd commit suicide...