Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position of a quasi-public body. The Sugar Institute has not yet been dignified with administrative powers of most other trade associations, for sugar refiners are still drafting a code. Though anti-trust prosecution and the NRA are by no means irreconcilable. Judge Mack made haste to wash his hands of the whole question. Preparing to grant the injunction which the Government will ask. Judge Mack said: "If and when a code shall have been approved for this industry the injunction decree may be modified or suspended to the extent, if any, made necessary...
...down from whatever wilds they may inhabit for the purpose of denying, with spears and war-clubs, that Nordhoff and myself are in any way affiliated with their tribe, our blood will be upon the heads of the united staff of TIME. And may you never be able to wash...
...Traylor could never remember when he was first put to work. At six he was drying dishes in the family home on a Kentucky farm-two log cabins set end-to-end with space between for wash-tubs. At 51 he was in Switzerland helping to organize the Bank for International Settlements. At 18 he was teaching school for $150 a year, working as a grocer's clerk, joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency. At 27 he was manager...
...glories, hosts of the sweet potato weevil; 198 men to remove debris from Alaskan rivers so salmon can swim up and spawn; 94 Indians to transport snowshoe rabbits to those of the Kodiak Islands that need to be restocked; 1,112 men to eradicate phony peach; a group to wash Manhattan's civic statues; unemployed colored girls to keep house for destitute families...
...Darryl Zanuck's feeble Advice to the Lovelorn which it copies, but its only veracity is a performance by Ned Sparks as an embittered legman. Good shot: tiny Sidney Skolsky, Holly-wood columnist for the New York Daily News, making his cinema debut when emerges timidly a nightclub wash room...