Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each from all working Californians*.), "$30 Every Thursday'' was no daydream politically. Close to 800,000 signatures were obtained for petitions to put it on the November ballot and last week, day after Californians went to the primary polls, the State Supreme Court announced there was nothing wrong with the form of the petitions, on the ballot it must go. Candidate Downey, who had plumped for the scrip plan and adopted its slogans ("Life Begins at 50," "Ham & Eggs"), rolled up 486,000 votes to Mr. McAdoo...
Reporting an hour early for his first day's work* as a stock boy in the basement of William Filene's Sons department store in Boston, John Aspinwall Roosevelt entered by the wrong door, drew the wrong time slip, forgot to throw away his cigaret. Said he: "I'm really serious about this job. The sooner everybody forgets I'm my father's son, the better it will be for me. ... It sure is interesting...
...surprised," said harassed Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace last week, "that some people would say we are back to 1932. . . ." Then, after repeating the complaint that some newspapers were "creating a wrong impression," he issued a batch of figures to show how U. S. farmers are faring under the new AAA: estimated 1938 farm income (including Government largess) is $7,500,000,000, down 12.7% from 1937-but 74% above...
...District Attorney Dewey declared: "He got a change of clothes. . . . He had his clothes there. . . . There were two detectives and the mother of Miss Dare present, so that anybody who has been reveling in ideas that the District Attorney was conniving at adultery has just been off on the wrong foot. . . . Incidentally, he has been separated from his wife for three years...
...Cartoonist Jack Knox of the Memphis Commercial Appeal expressed some Southerners' feelings about "the nation's No. 1 economic problem." He showed Uncle Sam stepping on his own toes, exclaiming: Oh! Oh! Something is wrong with my right foot...