Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This represented a profound change in mood on Mr. Borah's part. Last year the great individualist opposed the cotton and tobacco control bills. But last year he made a mistake by being asleep at the political switch when AAA put a "compensatory" tax on jute sacking in which Idaho farmers bag their potatoes. This year he wishes to avoid mistakes, for next year he faces an election. Next year Mr. Brewster also faces an election and his constituency includes Aroostook County where, because of potato prices, the current relief bill is $100,000 a month and going...
...trade. A brisk light-hearted and enormously romantic tableau, The Scarlet Pimpernel should sprout immediately on lists of worthy cinemas compiled out of respect for decency or for plain good taste. Good shot: Sir Percy ingratiating himself with a sentry at the gates of Paris by showing him a switch made of dead patricians' pigtails...
Bulgarians added a British angle. They pointed out that George V's cruiser London of the Malta squadron arrived at Varna on the Black Sea while General Zlateff was sounding out highly placed Bulgarians preparatory to his switch. Off H. M. S. London stepped none other than Rear Admiral John Knowles Im Thurn, sometime commander of H. M. S. Hood ("World's Most Powerful Battle Cruiser...
...family Easter dinner at less cost," he grumbled. Asked if he favored the Washington Plan in theory, the short, swart Mayor parried politically: "I must first see how it will affect Mrs. O'Flaherty, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. Pellegrino and Mrs. Jones. The hand that turns the electric switch is the hand that will determine the rates...
Vandal Nearing Columbus, Ohio s Union Station half an hour late, Penn sylvania's No. 614 (Cleveland-Cincinnati) hurtled through an open switch, piled into a string of empty box cars, pinned three trainmen in the overturned locomotive cab. Police and railroad officials said the switch had been locked open by a vandal...