Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissioner of Internal Revenue handles more public money than the Secretary of the Treasury, handles it secretly and is usually the worst sort of political hack. Most past Commissioners have safely played the political game of their patrons while in office, later cashed in on their experience by becoming highly-paid "tax consultants." Impartial observers rate quiet, genial Commissioner Helvering, 57, well above the level of his predecessors. Born in Felicity, Ohio, he got to Congress in 1913 by way of law practice in Kansas, sat for six years as an active tax legislator. He was Mayor of Salina, Kans...
...home, however, the Greeks were losing part of Venizelos' plunder to a resuscitated Turkey under Mustapha Kemal Pasha. When Venizelos rushed home the Greek electorate, with one of the world's worst non sequiturs, repudiated Venizelos and called back King Constantine. Once again Venizelos turned his hand to revolution. Back as Prime Minister, he deposed Constantine's son George and resigned just before Greece turned Republic...
...Roosevelt). Prior to Japanese interference in setting up the puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the C. E. R. earned $10,000,000 (before Roosevelt) yearly from 1924 to 1930. Thus the C. E. R. changed hands last week for less than five times its earnings in an average year, the worst bargain made by Soviet Russia since Lenin accepted the Peace of Brest-Litovsk...
Kansas City, Mo., March 20--Swirling prairie dirt turned day into night and choked this city of half a million today in the worst dust storm in history...
...does not possess the requisite courage and cohesion, then we had better abandon our dream of a warless future, and revert to the limited objective of 'peace in our time.' With such an end in view, we may still turn for counsel to the pre-War system. At its worst, it was less dangerous than a paper facade, which no nation trusts or fears. At present, it seems, nations which should trust are dominated by fear, and those which fear are emboldened. The peoples of the world seem at times to resemble a crowd in a small room...