Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House press conference few minutes later President Roosevelt showed himself in no mood to abandon propaganda or talk of propaganda. Through the Press the country could hear him speaking about as follows to the Washington newshawks: Were people talking about a "death sentence" on holding companies? They had the timing wrong. The real death sentence was passed long ago by holding companies on utilities investors. For stockholders the bill's "death sentence" was actually an emancipation proclamation. The Administration was out to save their dollars and it proposed to succeed. It would give them a chance to live...
...Soprano Claire Dux) and Mrs. Archibald Freer, who stipulated that her beneficiary must learn and sing an aria from her opera. Joan of Arc. Youngest pupil is a girl of 16, oldest a Chicago concert singer named Marie Zendt, fiftyish. Though Miss Garden began teaching with great gusto and abandon, sometimes slapping a thigh for emphasis, her class last week persisted in feeling too religiously awed even to laugh at their teacher's quips...
...ruins of Quetta in British Baluchistan, smeared by earthquake last fortnight (TIME, June 10). Against the menace of fire, flood, jackals, looters and cholera, a British division surrounded the town and dug frantically in the ruins. But when a rumor spread that the British planned to dynamite and abandon Quetta, natives set up a mighty howl, pointed out that in other earthquakes men had been dug out alive as long as a week afterward...
Building production was up, bank savings were up, insurance premiums were up. The inference was plain that all this was the work of His Majesty's National Government which has taken the pound off gold and raised British tariffs. "I see no reason," said he, "to abandon Government's policies of moderate tariffs and cheap money." The next step in Britain's ascent out of Depression, he said, was a resumption of international lending, and even there a beginning had been made. So expansive was the Chancellor's speech that one correspondent ascribed...
...every year for $2,000,000 or become insane every July for $95,000,000. Women wanted $200,000 for an October trance, $4,500,000 for July madness. For $10,000,000 each, men would spend their lives in a Manhattan apartment. Women wanted $62,500,000. To abandon all hope of life after death the men wanted $1,000, the women only $10. Men would get thoroughly intoxicated for $25, women...