Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast, waxy-gleaming floor of the East Room, where Mrs. John Adams once hung the White House wash, stood an enormous Christmas tree. This was the public tree, trimmed in white snow and white lights. Upstairs in the second-floor corridor stood the family tree, brilliant with colored balls, candles only on its fire-proofed upper branches, out of children's reach. Below it will mass breast-high stacks of family gifts...
Times were tough in Walla Walla, Wash, (pop. 15,976) in the spring of 1932. The tariff wall which Canada hoisted in the early '205 had finally cut off the valley's chief market for fresh fruits, asparagus, tomatoes. Moreover, its wheat was going begging at 50? a bushel...
...Growing fear in labor circles that desperate Communists might provoke disorder, try to create a new Centralia* case, was heightened by a riot in Aberdeen, Wash. In this lumber centre with a big Finnish colony, the Finnish Brotherhood scheduled an anniversary meeting. Grays Harbor Communists then scheduled a "Victory Dance" for the same date at the old Red Hall in B Street, two blocks from the Finn Hall. Twenty-five Communists appeared for the dance, huddled in the hall while a crowd of some 400 battered down the door, pulled siding off the walls, tore out the plumbing, smashed...
...Centralia, Wash., in 1919, crowds attacked an I.W.W. hall, were fired upon. Result: four dead, seven imprisoned for 25 to 40 years. Last September the last imprisoned member of the I.W.W. was released...
...Frank Gannett, Rochester, N. Y. publisher, and chairman of his own National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government. While Mr. Gannett was away (on a Western speaking tour), the office mice began to play, nominated him in an editorial written without his knowledge, and without his robust style. In Spokane, Wash., pleased Mr. Gannett bumbled: "No American . . . would decline the nomination if it were offered him.*Mr. Gannett had been nominated before: by British Press Peer Lord Beaverbrook last year (TIME...