Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study of the report of the Special Recess Committee shows that all existing licenses for the sale of light wine and beer will be revoked at the legislation of the proposed law. Reilly explained the widespread unwillingness of merchants to renew their beer and ale licenses by pointing out that many of them are rapidly going into debt...
...strike's fomenter, wild-haired, bespectacled Milo Reno, that "instructions were issued that there was not to be any picketing," John Farmer went out on the highways to turn back city-bound shipments of foodstuffs. Iowa, seat of the Farmers Holiday Association, was the scene of widespread picketing. A man driving a truckload of cattle into Sioux City was badly beaten. Governor Herring called out militiamen to help patrol highways in the western part of his State. Veterans of last spring's milk war in Wisconsin outdid their lowan colleagues in violence. Ten thousand pounds of milk were...
What he called a "widespread public misapprehension" was scotched last week by Nazidom's hot-eyed little Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels...
...During recent months we have seen the city sink lower under an increasing load of stupidity and incompetence and when an arrogant leadership asked the citizens of this city to put its stamp of approval on such a record, resentment became widespread and deepseated. . . . To whom could they turn? To the candidate named by the Fusion group? His record is the answer to that question. No one can have any confidence in him because his whole record has been a record of opportunism, instability and explosiveness unparalleled in politics...
Tammany Hall is by no means the totally wicked organization which out-of-towners and professional New York reformers believe it to be. Even so keen a muckraker as Lincoln Steffens lends support to the theory that only through such widespread political societies as Tammany does the greatest advantage come to the greatest number of citizens from their government. Many a shrewd, honest and successful Manhattanite maintains close Tammany connections. Unanimously, this Tammany type deplores the bad management which has brought the 128-year-old Hall into the shadow of its fifth reformation. This sorry plight, they claim...