Word: tars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan nurses unwound thick bandages from the right eye of beefy, chocolate Sam Langford. An oldtime, hammer-handed prizefighter known to fans as "The Boston Tar Baby," Negro Langford would have been world's Lightweight Champion in 1903 if he had not been eight ounces over the weight limit when he mauled Joe Gans. In 1917 he was stalling through a fixed fight with Fred Fulton when Fulton punched his left eye so hard it had to be taken out. Soon cataracts formed over the right eye. Unable to see more than two feet ahead, Sam Langford fought...
...Bill increasing the enlisted strength of the Army from 119,000 to 165,000 (TIME, March 25); a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross on Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo and on General Aldo Pellegrini for their flight to the Century of Progress in 1933; the repealer of income tar publicity (pink slips...
...Carl Duisberg, 73, organizer in 1925 and chairman of Germany's great dye trust, the I. G. Farbenindustrie, head of the Reich Federation of German Industry until he resigned in 1931; near Cologne. While employed by Fr. Bayer & Co. (Aspirin and other chemical products), he produced such coal-tar dyes as benzopurpurin (red), azo-blue, benzoazurin, sulfonazurin...
...Smart Aleck" Sirs: . . . You better leave town after quoting from that smart aleck, Erskine Caldwell, because the Chamber of Commerces south of the Potomac will want to tar and feather you, and ride you on a rail for your dastardly inference that folks are starving in the South. I'll have you to know that we might have illiteracy, hookworm, inertia, lynchings, murder, pellagra and malnutrition, but never "starvation." They can starve in Russia if they want to (or if Hearst wants them to), but they better not starve in the South, because the Chamber of Commerce...
...Navy Departments do not want U. S. arms makers, on whom their preparedness plans are based, to be tarred, feathered and crippled to make a publicity holiday for Senator Nye. They have sufficient difficulty in getting what they regard as adequate appropriations for themselves. From their standpoint, if foreign governments can be induced to buy U. S. arms, that is a cheap way of supporting the Army's and Navy's own arsenals: du Pont, Remington, Winchester, Colt, et al. In last week's Senate testimony it was brought out that Chief of Staff MacArthur in former years made speeches...