Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp increase in income taxes especially in the higher brackets. No sales tax. "To attempt to support prosperity values for property among an idle and impoverished people is a futile gesture. It's like trying to revive a dying tree by applying fertilizer to its branches instead of to its roots. . . . There is just one thing to do-take incomes from where they are and place them where we need them. Practically this means extreme income taxation...
...workman trimming a big tree in Tuscarawas Park at New Philadelphia, Ohio one day last week, suddenly gasped and stared. There, in a rain-filled crevice, 40 ft. above ground, alive and wriggling, lay a 7-in. catfish. Goggle-eyed with wonder, the sawyer carried it down, threw it in a nearby lake. The catfish swam swiftly away...
...woodwinds whispered spookily. Jones, tired by running, sank to the ground. His feet hurt him. He pulled off his boots and fanned his toes. His stomach was empty. He hunted vainly for food which he had hidden under a white stone against just such a time? Dwarfish forms like tree-stumps started moving towards him, ha'nts which frightened him so that he drew his pearl-handled revolver, fired at them...
...fight pirates off Madagascar, became one himself. Sentenced to death in London, he exclaimed: "My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part I am the innocentest person of them all. . . ." First the rope, then the gallows broke during his execution. He was hanged to a tree...
Died. Carl S. Carlton, 53, farmer brother of Florida's Governor Doyle Elam Carlton; by a charge of buckshot fired, while deer-hunting, by his brother Alton Carlton. ricocheting off a cypress tree full into his face; in the Everglades near Immokalee...