Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost simultaneous with its arrival, a means of combatting it has been devised. A pair of ingenious go-getting bootleggers recently hit upon a novel means of increasing their effectiveness as salesmen of illicit spirits. They had tried arguments supporting the authenticity of their liquors; they had worn stiff collars, shined their shoes, brushed their hair, and worn pleasant smiles on their unrefined countenances...
...American Independent Petroleum Association balked. These independent producers argued that it would be futile to limit U. S. oil output so long as the four big importing companies could freely bring in oil. Decreased production, they claimed, would lead only to increased importations. Their proposed remedy was a stiff duty on crude oil to cut imports and make domestic conservation possible. The big oil companies fought any such customs restriction...
...Board of Trade (equals "Secretary of Commerce"), when he collapsed from joy-shock at seeing his coal bill squeak through committee stage by nine votes, one more than the House gave it at second reading (TIME, Dec. 30). Friends carried out the collapsed President, sent him home for a stiff dose of sleep...
...life, some States copied this severe code, while others watched critically its operation as a penological experiment. Only executive clemency could save convicts from the machine-like precision of these criminal statutes. Last week other States saw New York send its first woman to jail for life under their stiff provisions. She was Ruth St. Clair, 30, kleptomaniac. Her fourth offense was stealing from Manhattan's John Wanamaker store $121 worth of dresses and baby ware for which she had no need...
...hurled?with the typical recklessness of the Paris pamphleteer?that the fall last fortnight of the moderate French Cabinet of André Tardieu was the result of an international Socialist "plot." The British Socialists and their leader Scot MacDonald were imagined to have feared that M. Tardieu with his stiff naval demands (TIME, Feb. 24) might wreck the London Conference. It was represented that Socialist MacDonald, through the Second International, secured the aid of Socialist groups in France, and the assistance of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, with the result that the Tardieu Cabinet was upset...