Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people and the State. . . . Honest competition must be but it is to be controlled by strong leadership, focused magnetlike upon the supreme goal of commonweal and service to the nation." With the rhetoric went a plan. All industry was to be divided into a dozen groups: 1) mining and rough metals; 2) machinery and electrical goods; 3) iron and other metal products; 4) building materials, glass and pottery; 5) chemicals, oils and paper; 6) leather, textiles and clothing; 7) food; 8) handwork; 9) commerce; 10) banking; 11) insurance; 12) transportation. Each group will have a leader, not elected...
...appear in his cartoons. He joined Iowa's Fish & Game Commission, became president of its Conservation Commission. Three years ago he helped launch a 25-year plan for restoring Iowa's game, gave Iowa State College $9,000 from his own pocket to develop it. At a rough & tumble hearing in Washington last autumn "Ding's" tongue, agile and stinging as his pen, nearly carried the day for duck protectionists against an overwhelming number of non-protectionists led by hard-driving President Thomas Hambly Beck of P. F. Collier & Son Co. Few months later "Ding," no grudge...
...Rotterdam stood two miles off Nassau in the Bahamas, her captain deciding it was too rough to land. Suddenly a tender came bobbing precariously out through the heavy sea. Aboard it was Patrick Cardinal Hayes, determined to get back to Manhattan in time to review the St. Patrick's Day parade...
...Cuban sugar production, the nobility of Bacon's sentiment was better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian, must be swept away. Philippine motes are ocularly harmless compared with the beam of depression. The McDuffie Bill remains a rough-hewn measure, but, even if Congress insists on eating its cake and having it too, there's time to munch the crumbs later. JUDAS...
...largest Roman Catholic order of active nuns. A lay community not administered by the Church, the Sisters renew their vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and service of the poor every year on March 25. Any pious woman may join or resign at will. Their habit is a rough grey-blue gown and a "cornette" or white-winged headdress such as 17th Century French peasants wore. (In her later years St. Louise wore a form of widow's weeds.) The "Loyola Unit" of the Sisters of Charity were the only U. S. nuns to go overseas during...