Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What ardor was present resulted from the contested seating of blocs of delegates from South Carolina headed by Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert and from Mississippi under Negro Perry W. Howard. Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover's political organizer, had been working to weed out these national committeemen ever since the administration promised to "clean up the G. O. P. south" in 1929. But after a ballot behind closed doors the national committee voted to seat Messrs. Tolbert and Howard, first sign of Old Guard recalcitrance to White House suasion...
...Hallowell '34, G. S. Hayes '34, H. S. Howe '34, B. L. Huntington '34, P. O. Johnson '33, J. J. Mellen, Jr. '33, C. G. Mixter, Jr. '34, C. C. Pell '33, B. S. Rogers '33, Robert Schafer '34, L. L. Thurber '34, R. H. Weed '34, F. C. Welch '33, J. B. White '34, Leslie Williams...
...infallible. A client named Levy was sent dozens of clippings about a tax levy. The Country Gentleman received various references to country gentlemen. An olive growers' association got clippings about the death of Film Actress Olive Thomas. A man who wanted all items on batteries had to weed through stories about arrests for assault and battery. Matters improved after the girls were paid a straight wage instead of piece work...
...Gillies filled enough buckets with rare roses to bring his employer six different first prizes. Greenhousemen built a 60-ft. bank of flowering orchids like a chorus girl's dream of heaven. A million dollars' worth of blossoms and not a bug or a worm or a weed, but in this, the third year of the Depression, the International Flower Show took on a new seriousness...
...House take up a resolution by Pennsylvania's Beck and Maryland's Linthicum to amend the Constitution for the return of liquor control to the States? The Wets, with no hope of actual victory, purposed by this ballot to put every House member on record on Prohibition, weed out the weaslers for the coming campaign, exhibit the growing Wet strength. Before the counting began, Drys claimed the Wet vote would not exceed 160. Wets predicted they would get at least 180. Final result: 227 Drys voting No; 187 Wets voting...