Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...which began July 1, has seen a great change in the financial situation. A surplus of $122,788,966 had been predicted, but its computation did not take into account the effect of the temporary 1% income tax reduction. The President's only mention of the stockmarket crash was backhanded: "Due to the depression it is now estimated that the income of the Government in taxes and postal receipts . . . will probably fall below the anticipation." Besides, "the measures taken to increase employment . . . represent a very material increase in Government expenditures of over $225,000,000. . . . These sums . . . reduce...
...savings bank, so he was equipped for a short layoff, and he had bought his last suit (for $32.50, at a sale) just two months before. He went home in November to his by-the-year lease apartment, cheered up his wife, chaffed the children. But he began earnestly to look for another position...
...cannonball Protectionist," he began, alluding to obstreperous Conservative Baron Beaverbrook. "Nor am I an acid drop Free Trader," this shot being, of course, for Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
When the strangers began to ask about her son, Mme Dzhugashvili at once brightened, settled down to an obviously favorite subject...
...Soso was always a good boy!" she began...