Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration offered them money to plow under more than 10,00,000 acres of planted cotton, reducing the acreage 27% to 29,700,00 acres. On this account cotton men guessed that the 1933 crop would be 10,500,000 or 11,000,000 bales. Great was their shock to see the Government's estimate for a crop of 12,314,000 bales after deducting 4,247,000 bales for the area plowed under. The Government is to pay cotton farmers (and the consumer will pay the Government through processing taxes), between...
There is no greater state than Kansas. No mountains distort its surface. Its winding rivers are as precisely parallel as its level roads. The grain in its flat fields waves as if marcelled. Its citizens lead lives of regularity. Last week Kansans had as great a shock as if the Rocky Mountains had suddenly risen from their harvest fields...
...first shock was felt in Topeka, the State Capital. A national bank examiner questioned the bona fides of some municipal bonds held by the National Bank of Topeka. The U. S. District Attorney got busy, requested permission of State Treasurer Tom Boyd to check them against bonds in the State vaults. The Treasurer refused. The District Attorney went to Governor Alfred M. Landon, got access to the vaults. In 40 minutes Federal investigators found $329,000 of forged bonds held as security for deposits of State funds in Kansas banks-found them lying in the vault not more than...
...McNeal Johnson, 43, lawyer, sportsman, second son of U. S. Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California; by his own hand (pistol); in his home outside San Francisco. An artillery major in the World War, wounded at Chateau Thierry, he was said by friends to have suffered from recurrent shell-shock. Divorced in June from Martha Ruddy Leet Johnson, he left a note in verse, ending: "Forgive me, God. for all I've done to please that ever-grasping one who took my very life...
Katha never got to London, and there was a five-year nightmare before Tony could get to Vienna. Letters between them had gone astray. The lovers were lost. So Tony came back and married Margaret because she desperately wanted to and he was suffering from "delayed shock." Not for 13 years did Tony see Katha. By 1927 he had given up his business, had begun wandering round the Continent. At Aeaea they met. Katha was thinner. She had been scrubbing floors in a Vienna department store. Poverty had even pawned her body a few times. She could no longer have...