Word: trodden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smallest worm will turn, being trodden...
Last week the dapper Dictator docked at Miami, sped to Washington by private car. A guard of honor (four squads of Marines, with drum & bugle corps) met him at Union Station and celebrations began along the well-trodden trail-wreaths at Arlington and Mount Vernon, inspection of the CCC camp at Fort Hunt, cocktails with Congressmen. But the next day, Death squelched the squeeze play. In deference to his late Secretary of the Navy (see below). President Roosevelt postponed Trujillo's tea to this week. The visit with Secretary Hull became a brief formal call.* The Pan American party...
...already apparent that Mexico like other governments which try to plug income tax loopholes was not going to be 100% successful. Foreign sellers promptly treated the tax like an import duty, added 3% to their invoice prices, thus passed the bulk of the new tax to the down-trodden Mexican who will eventually buy their products...
...phrase "for the farmers" has been resurrected with great ceremony. Tied as it is to associations about the down-trodden and suffering, it almost automatically carries the seal of acceptance for the unthinking. The cleavage of party ranks emphasizes this thought. The bill may well create political whirlpools within both parties...
...summoned from Hollywood. Negroes were assembled who knew no stuffy traditions, had true feeling for rhythm. Mamoulian's hand was particularly evident in the big mass groupings, in the way he kept the action in pace with the music. The Negroes in prayer suggested an entire down-trodden race...