Word: ment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Carter Glass* of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who remembers when the whole U. S. Govern-ment ran itself on a billion dollars a year, last week rose to his feet in horror. Before the Senate was a bill appropriating $1,218,000,000 to run the Department of Agriculture in fiscal 1940. He earnestly asked unanimous consent to reconsider the $383,000,000 which the Senate had added to the House version of the bill. Would not his colleagues give second thought before approving the biggest Farm Bill in U. S. history...
...Turners-nine in all-are Negro sharecroppers, who clear about $50 a year. Thinks Grade: "De gover'ment's got no business a-payin' out relief money and a-givin' WP and A jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till...
This movement is the recommence-ment of a policy in practice some years ago when children were admitted free on Saturdays for games at which a low ticket sale was expected. At that time, however, the children were so unruly that the Athletic Association was forced to discontinue the benefaction...
Presents: from His Majesty's Govern-ment a $100,000 mansion, unexpectedly delayed in construction so that Paul & Margaritas had to move into a friend's house in Athens this week, before starting on their wedding trip; from His Majesty's Cabinet & Armed Forces a $10,000 emerald & diamond necklace; from the Greek Royal Yacht Club a yacht; from the President of France a tablecloth; from the Duke & Duchess of Windsor a gift (nature undisclosed) explained by announcing that "the Duke was an old friend of Prince Paul...
...soldiers' bonus in 1936, which accentuated inflationary sentiment that got out of bounds in the spring of 1937, drove prices and inventories too> high. As contributory factors he mentioned strikes, increased operating costs of railroads, lack of expansion by utilities and, finally, the attempt of the Govern-ment to reduce its contribution to consumer spending power. Said he: "Monopolistically controlled prices and wages which are now too high must be lowered and prices and wages which are too low, in relation to consumer purchasing power, must be raised...