Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intend is not that the Administration shall continue hostilities while we abstain from them." Last week Speaker Garner led the House into a clear-cut split with President Hoover on Government re-organization for economy's sake. Instead of giving the President blanket authority to trim and weed and consolidate which he requested fortnight ago, the House, by a vote of 215-to-22. created a seven-man committee of its own to survey the executive field and report by April 15 where and how reorganizations could save $100,000,000. Some Republicans flayed this Democratic move...
...this is the annual Spring conference," explained Looey XVI. "We're just going to talk things over like and map out the Nova Scotia Province fairly for future business, to eliminate duplication of effort and waste in other forms and to weed out graft. Yes, you heard me! I said: 'Wipe out graft...
...Literary board, James Parton '34, of Rye, New York; and Richard John Walsh, Jr. '34, of Pelham, New York. On the Art board Sidney Carrol '34, Brooklyn, New York, and John Wentworth Pierce '33, of Topsville. On the Business board Kip Natherby '34, New York, and Roger Haydick Weed '84, New York...
...cents' worth of a certain bird seed, planted in any back yard, will grow into a yardful of marijuana. Marijuana is a variety of hemp weed (Cannabis sativa) long common in Mexico, lately becoming common in the U. S. Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cigarets, which are bootlegged under the name of "muggles," "reefers," or "Mary Warners." Thinner, shorter than standard cigarets, "muggles" are made from the small delicate leaves of the female marijuana plant. The male plant has no potency. Smoking of marijuana cigarets produces a state of intoxication similar to that induced...
...missionaries, not only is opium grown and consumed without restriction in six provinces (see map), but elsewhere and in provinces where it is barred by law bootleg opium and smok-easies flourish. More serious, illegal "taxes" are collected on opium in many places, graft and corruption flourish on the weed...