Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considering that Wilber Brucker had polled 315,000 votes on a strictly anti-New Deal platform, the Michigan trend against the Roosevelt Administration looked so strong to the Detroit Free Press that it published an editorial making fun of all straw votes and polls which indicated that the State was politically nip & tuck, announced that Dr. Daniel Starch's survey which had been appearing in its columns would be discontinued...
...roughly a million Nazis at what is called the "Party Congress" in Nürnberg. Around this city of 416.000 souls last week again sprang up the spreading tent towns in which Nazi boys & girls, youths and maidens, fathers and mothers, bachelors and spinsters, grandfathers and grandmothers sleep on straw couches. This year above their& canvas rose a dramatic "Tent of Light"-150 searchlights placed in a circle in such a way that their four-million-watt shafts of light met above it in the sky at a single focal point or imaginary tent pole...
...Whites under General Mola went crashing victoriously along with their trucks and coughing machine guns, entered San Sebastian virtually unresisted. The Anarchists fled back up the coast to Bilbao, announced: "Rather than surrender Bilbao we shall burn it to the last empty box, to the last wisp of straw...
...blazing sun beat down one day last week on the Mississippi delta cotton fields as hundreds of white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and Government men thronged to a private farm designated by the Delta Experiment Station at Stoneville. For many a month they had heard and talked a great deal about the cotton-picking machine invented by John Daniel Rust and his brother Mack...
With a wave of his straw hat, gracious, gangling Director George Harold Edgell, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts stepped into the gondola of a police motor-cycle at Cunard's Pier in East Boston last month and went popping through the Sumner Tunnel to Huntington Avenue and the Museum. Behind him in two bunting-draped trucks rumbled the most valuable collection of Japanese art ever to have left Japan. It was the nucleus of an exhibition which opened this week, and which should rival in importance London's great Chinese art exhibition of last winter...