Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freedom's Secretary of the Treasury until after the Armistice. "To make it a people's Treasury rather than a bankers' Treasury," McAdoo made national banks pay 2 % interest on Government deposits, helped Carter Glass push through the Federal Reserve Act. The War saw McAdoo's zenith as a public servant: he issued $370,000,000 in emergency currency in three months, ran the spy-hunting Secret Service, floated four Liberty Loans, the Fourth being the biggest of all bond issues (23,000,000 subscriptions totaling $6,989,047,000), served as Director General...
...here have always accepted that as the usual USA custom until last night when we saw a film in which the detectives removed their hats when a lady came in the room ! We didn't believe that it was an American film then, thinking that it must be English, but were assured by an American present that gentlemen in America do remove their hats...
Because he liked to sleep late, Cinemactor Lee Tracy used to tip thoughtful cinema hands who saw to it that "I wasn't called to the studio when I wasn't needed." Because he considered such tipping a business expense, Mr. Tracy deducted $161 from his income tax. Because it did not care how late Mr. Tracy slept, the Internal Revenue Bureau last week refused to allow the deduction...
Meanwhile, he studied at the New School for Social Research, was co-founder of a serious little magazine called the Economic Forum. During vacations he played in tennis tournaments, was good enough to enter the Nationals at Forest Hills. He also became "pitch-golf" champion of Broadway, saw every play. In his own plays, he admits sheepishly, he cannot make the women come alive...
SUWANNEE RIVER-Cecile Hulse Matschat-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Best of the Rivers of America series (previous volumes: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi) Suwannee River more than lives up to its folk-song fame. (Although Stephen Foster never saw the Suwannee, a stone to his memory stands at its source.) Author Matschat describes the primitive, fantastic swamp country of Georgia and Florida, the swamp folk and their legends, like a naturalist with poetic imagination...