Word: wipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three o'clock," cabled a precise correspondent, "the President was seen surreptitiously to wipe a tear from...
...business surveyor, explained that last year's postal deficit was $85,000,000, of which $35,000,000 was for the free han- dling of governmental mail (including matter franked by Congress), ocean and air subsidies. A ½¢ increase in the first-class rate, said he, would wipe out the "real deficit" of $50,000,000 and show a $10,000,000 profit. Declared Postman Tilton: "We have canvassed the whole situation and the revenue is not in the other classes.* In other classes there is competition. The railroads, for instance, carry newspapers as freight. . . . The increase in first...
...children's club paralleling the Boy & Girl Scouts, was discussed, described. Young Pioneers are taught allegiance to the Red flag, which follows summer camps. Charles G. Wood, Commissioner of Conciliation in the Department of Labor, testified that at the Wing- dale, N. Y., camp customs include: 1) a slogan: "Wipe God from the skies;" 2) a table request: "God damn it, pass the bread." The Committee resolved to visit Wingdale and other Young Pioneer camps...
...country of the desire to speculate. To the average American who has lived through the last four or five years of bull markets, speculation means easy money, and the idea has become so firmly instilled in the popular mind that it will take more than one disastrous crash to wipe...
...hope by righting this incident to make the occurrence of similar ones less probable in the future. As we have said, our defection was in money as well as in conduct. Let us wipe out both. Only then have we a right to forget the incident...