Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poppies, Churches. President Calles of Mexico decreed that all poppy plants shall be destroyed in the state of Sonora, the intention of the government being to wipe out the production of opium...
...concern to U. S. shippers. They felt that this sale- of the British-registered but U. S. operated and underwritten White Star line's 500,000 gross tonnage- meant further disintegration of the U.S. merchant marine. It may be that President Franklin will use the sales proceeds to wipe out an International Mercantile Marine indebtedness of almost like amount or, and more probably, to buy up certain U. S. Shipping Board vessels, including perhaps the Leviathan, and thus really strengthen the national merchant marine...
...closing week any number of bishops and leaders of prohibition- supporting societies declared their faith in prohibition. Mayor Dever rushed down from Chicago to deny testimony given by a Federal attorney that Chicago was full of bootlegging and to wipe out "a blot on the fair name of his city." Even some Yale students were called to testify to the result of a vote taken in the University in which students and faculty voted 4 to 1 for modification of prohibition, and declared that students got just as much liquor now as ever before. Professor Irving Fisher of the University...
...Baptist Church has organized the Lord's Day Alliance, and under the guidance of Rev. Harry L. Bowlby is moving heaven and earth to wipe out by civil statutes every ounce of pastime and pleasure of those weary and toiling masses who more and more are looking to Sunday as a day of healthful recreation and happy exercise...
After that he poureth water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe (them) with the towel wherewith he was girded...