Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much legislative maneuvring was necessary to get the measure through to the White House. First the Senate, full of ill temper, refused by a vote of 46 to 43, to accept the conference report in which the export debenture plan was stricken from the bill. President Hoover was openly flouted by those who either honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen...
...with curiously mottled skin. They shook hands violently with everyone in the room, then demanded to see the Minister of Agriculture, C. Argetoianu. "My God!" screamed the Minister's secretary, "Lepers! Unclean! Unclean!" Bravely he stationed himself before the door of his chief's sanctum while panic-stricken clerks and minor officials, overturning chairs and tables, stampeded to the outer air. Prudent Minister Argetoianu remained behind his desk while the piebald lepers shouted maledictions at the government, protested at the food and living conditions in Rumania's state lazaretto at Largeana, from which they had escaped. Gingerly...
Relief trains rushing to aid the stricken Mendoza vintners encountered great fissures in the earth, filled with spouting, boiling water...
There is a fairest and most illuminating time to look at a great man dead. That time for Karl Marx, holy father of Socialism of all tints, from palest parlor pink to Russianest Soviet red, is his poverty-stricken, voluminously literary period in England (1849 to his death...
...forced to flee to Japan (TIME, Sept. 24) by the present Nationalist Govern ment at Nanking. The return of Dastard Chang from Japan at the head of a band of military adventurers (TIME, March 4), and his capture of Chefoo last week bode untold evil to the wretched, famine-stricken people of Shantung. Cowed by the scowling marshal, who chews fat Havana cigars and particularly likes to spit brown in people's faces, they could only groan, "How do the wicked flourish!" Shrewd as well as ruthless, Chang Tsung-chang at once ran up the five-barred flag which...