Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basil L. ("Stuffy") Walters, 39, short, barrel-shaped (100-lb.) and genial, is managing editor of both the Register (morning) and Tribune (evening). Between his two staffs, entirely separate for each paper, has grown a genuine news rivalry, essential in a city where there is no other local competition...
...through the University of Kansas as a soda jerker, now lives swankily in Scarsdale, N. Y. The intervening years were largely spent in initiating the public into the mysteries of oil royalties. When a landowner leases mineral rights, he retains the right to the royalties-generally one barrel out of every eight. Because he and his clients receive one-eighth of production irrespective of the price of oil, Mr. Jones does not look kindly upon any effort to limit the natural flow...
...High point for ineptitude: a Mississippi Negro woman plaintively singing a "Letter to the President" in which she reminds him that before the elections she, as a sharecropper, was promised many good things, including "a barrel of applejack...
This means political control of the banking system in the worse sense. It ensures the very inconsistencies in policy which the Act is supposed to eliminate. It means that pork barrel policies will decide questions of international exchange rates. This is the great danger of the bill...
Last week citizens of small Cherryfield, Me. & vicinity were being treated to a sight on a par with that of a king rummaging in a slop barrel. Some of last year's drought-starved Western cattle were shipped to Cherryfield. They failed to recuperate, left natives with a large number of ribby carcasses on their hands. Cherryfielders piled the hulks on wagons, carted them to a lonely spot well back from their Black Woods road, dumped them out to rot. Snow soon covered the charnel heap...