Word: starting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enterprise. Get down on one side of the fence. ... If any businessman violates the law name him, indict him, convict him, fine him, jail him. But stop bringing the whole of a group into disrepute and discouragement. . . . Admit that excessive public expenditures have to be tapered off gradually. And start doing it. Start just a trend toward solvency...
...Finns, they continued to harass the invaders, refused to start an offensive which might cost them valuable man power. Their sharpshooters picked Russian observers out of trees. At night, raiding parties of three, armed with their light machine guns, crossed the lakes and rivers in boats, slipped up on the Russians in bivouac and slaughtered them...
...Suggested steps for getting a job: 1) buy a loose-leaf notebook; 2) keep a record of findings about yourself and possible careers; 3) prepare yourself for a particular career before you start hunting...
...wrote a sober obituary on the death of Socialist Eugene V. Debs in 1926, two bitter columns on Sacco & Vanzetti the year after. In 1933 he announced his resolve to start a union for reporters. A few months later the American Newspaper Guild was founded, with Broun as chairman. Most of its routine work was done by other officers, but Broun was always the Guild's presiding saint: his rotund figure constantly protected...
...bales against total exports of only 3,362,000 bales in the cotton year ended July 1, 1939. The balance of the subsidy fund should account for another 600,000 bales at $1 a bale. But if farmers, who have 3,941,950 bales in hock with the Government, start repossessing, they can flood the market all over again, break the price...