Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other reductions were on cigaret paper, corsets, canned mushrooms, lace, perfumes, vanilla beans, feather dusters, candied chestnuts, Roquefort cheese, jewelry. Last year $4,270 of the $4,275 worth of maraschino cherries imported by the U. S. came from France. On these Secretary Hull sliced the duty...
...others, before you came here to Congress, were as poor as church mice, and perhaps would have been in the soup line by this time except you grabbed hold of the public teat and have been milking $10,000 a year out of the taxpayers. You would really be worth more to the nation if you were cleaning up the waste behind a good herd of cows...
...Hore-Belisha. A potent partner in Belisha & Co. is Leslie Thomas, son of dumpy James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary of State for the Colonies. One of the first facts discovered about last month's Budget-leak scandal was that Belisha & Co. had taken out $20,000 worth of income tax insurance on behalf of an advertising agent named Alfred Bates. Alfred Bates was one of Jim Thomas' most intimate friends. Another Thomas intimate is Sir Alfred Butt, Conservative M. P., theatrical producer and insurance underwriter. Sir Alfred had bet heavily against a rise in the income...
...drugs in the U. S. medicine cabinet last week congregated in Manhattan for an evangelical meeting of the Proprietary Association. This organization, headed for 22 years by Castoria's Frank Anthony Blair, is spokesman, defender and apologist for an industry which annually makes and sells $300,000,000 worth of medicines, antiseptics, and hygienic supplies...
...children. A matronly woman came by with some brown and some white and some dirty children. I mean some of them were cute; but one was a brat! She threw stones at me; I mean she actually picked up a rock and let it go for all she was worth; and it hit me behind the ear. Behind the ear it hit me; and then the little sissy ran. I mean she hid behind the matron's skirts. It's a damn good thing. I mean I was mad would have spanked the little pickanninny's bottom. But the matron...