Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just at press time last week every German newspaper received a rush dispatch from the semi-official Telegraphen-Union news agency. It read...
...distributed were thousands upon thousands of jobs ripening on the Administration's plum tree since March 4. New legislation had created thousands more. Because most of these new emergency jobs were not put under civil service, the National Civil Service Reform League last week loudly warned against the rush for "spoils." Some people even began to forecast "corruption." Postmaster General Farley had unsuccessfully backed a bill to open every job paying more than $5,000 to political appointment...
...automobile industry may ask for an average 36-hr, work week, since during its rush months (April, May, June) the industry is geared to a 48-hr, week, tapering off in autumn and winter to less than half of that...
From Geneva, where Foreign Minister Paul-Boncour had been studying the agreement carefully there came a sudden telegram. Premier Daladier instantly subsided. Delegate Paul-Boncour's first job was to rush to France's excited allies. Rumania, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland, and assure them that nothing had been signed, that there was no immediate threat to all the land acquired by them through the Versailles Treaty...
...trouble" in the South dogged him the rest of his life. For a while he came home, passed himself off as the hired man. When the sheriff came for him his loyal family helped him get away. Joe went West, joined the gold rush to the Black Hills. He had so many irons in the fire he was always hoping one would get hot, but it never did. Meanwhile his favorite sister Catherine died, Anne and Hortense married failures, Aaron got greyer and stingier. Joe's bitterest pill was to watch his youngest brother David, a hypocritical prig, become...