Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nebraska State Chairman who holds a job with the Federal Reserve Board; and Mr. Farley himself. Obviously Mr. Farley could not resign as head of the National Committee until he had finished rearranging the Democratic pack. Last week the shuffle began. First card dealt was a new Treasurer to dig up funds for next autumn's Congressional campaign, to pay the party's $500,000 debt, to mend financial fences in anticipation of 1936. The post was decorously offered to John Sanford Cohen, the job-hungry publisher of the Atlanta Journal. He declined it, presumably because...
...freezing out the hardy contestants in the North American bobsled races. In Manhattan, 9.2 in. of snow fell. In the metropolitan area 500,000 commuters could not get to work. The Stock Exchange opened an hour late. Setting aside another $2,000,000 to pay 50,000 men to dig his hard-strapped city out, Mayor La Guardia moaned: "I get the jitters every time I see snow." Because all city life did not come to a standstill Brooklyn Druggist Otto Raubenheimer, a member of the Blizzard Men of '88, jeered: "A mere flurry! This snowstorm is a carbon...
...tent just north of the Lampoon building at dusk the other day; word had come north that the Plympton St. Pass was closed to traffic. Parking automobiles is no longer a science, but a gamble. The insouciant police swing their arms in Harvard Square, the Street Cleaners dig in here, dig in there, the snow piles up in ragged mounds, slashes off, piles up again. The trolley whisk-broom, flicking the dandruff off the shoulders of Mass. Ave., is the only efficient device of its kind in the town...
...June 1933, Transcript readers had started to dig wells at $1,000 each to avoid paying the rates which Editor Baker denounced. The public school and a parochial school run by Editor Baker's ally, the Very Rev. James A. Walsh, did likewise. The Susquehanna fire department stopped using water company hydrants, pumped water up from the river. In nearby little Lanesboro, where W. E. Bennett is the village's largest taxpayer, the fire company shut off all its hydrants, proposed to depend entirely on help from the Susquehanna fire department...
...Daily News, the World-Telegram, the New York Foundation, which had paid for an investigation begun two years ago, a grand jury which had recommended an investigation of the prison's "gross mismanagement" last year. Plain, however, was the fact that it took an anti-Tammany administration to dig to the bottom of Welfare Island's cesspool of corruption...