Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduction of "excessive" rates; 3) transferred from the President to Congress his power to flex rates; 4) created the office of "consumers' counsel" with the Tariff Commission. The measure was sent to the Senate. If passed there, President Hoover is expected to veto it as a political trap set to embarrass...
...effect China was left without a Government, for the more prominent members of General Chiang's cabinet resigned with him. Cantonese suspected a trap, feared that on the arrival of their leaders to take over the Nanking Government, these leaders might be slain by soldiers still loyal to General Chiang who would set himself up again as President. Meanwhile Nanking weltered in a series of patriotic riots by Chinese "students" who have not studied for months, preferring to hurl bricks and assault Chinese statesmen in protest against their "weak policy...
...Times Square, like the well-remembered Cock Robin and The Last Warning, is a backstage murder play. A drama is being rehearsed, during which a man is shot as he vanishes through a trap door. He emerges in the audience unhurt. Then another man, coming through the audience, is fired on. It turns out that he is not killed either. Finally someone really is shot, but by this time the whole business has become too silly for you to care much one way or another...
...light his running lights. He ran afoul something in the dark. The Spindrift began to ship water . . . not until well on in the next day, after a night of horror, did the storm abate and his sight return sufficiently to see where he was- caught in a fish trap...
...Constitution outside of Annapolis the other day. She looked quite innocent of having had any part in diabolic Amendments. Well, thank the Lord, that part is over with. Now for the next. Let's hope it will happen in waters too deep for the 18th Amendment-fish traps. . . . Well, here's how to you and all. Hope this is safer stuff. The other bottle went overboard, so the fish won't see the fish trap...