Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forceful Governor Henry Horner (ne Levy), a onetime Chicago probate judge who quarreled with the Kelly-Nash machine and has set up his own "reform" machine to fight it. So last month, when paunchy Bill Dieterich, who has been a loyal if uninspired Rooseveltian in the Senate, returned to repair his Illinois political fences, he needed at least one machine to help...
...release more than a billion dollars for new construction and repair work, President Roosevelt made certain overtures for peace between the Administration and the (1 Du Pont Products Co., 2 automobile manufacturers, 3 public utilities, 4 steel industry, 5 railroads...
...threat resulted in the calling of a referendum on a $550,000 bond issue to raise salaries, repair buildings, hire more teachers. To vote in San Antonio, however, citizens must be on the tax rolls, declare property valued at $10 or more. This presented a problem to the city's low-paid teachers, who own little besides personal possessions. The resourceful teachers solved the problem, however, by hastening to declare the personal property that tax-dodging citizens ordinarily do not list. Blonde, comely Lee Ray Chandler listed her cello. Janitor C. C. Woodward declared his cow. Teacher...
Days were forgotten. Then someone struck a stray cow and broke the rocket. Eng assembled his neighbors, and each contributed to the price for repair. Another one stole part of the car for himself and did not tell Eng. Finding it gone, Eng became angry and beat his head. He began to punish those who misused the car by using it more himself. Then he used it when he was not punishing. People wondered, but said nothing, for Eng could do no wrong. But soon Eng had the rocket most of the time, and he frowned when any neighbor asked...
What's to be done about all this? the Little Man wants to know. Rent strikes are shown. The tenants hope to force the landlords to repair the tenements and lower rents. But since the high price of building materials forces landlords to raise rents, what is the solution? More housing projects, says the Voice...