Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram solemnly warned: "The New Deal Can't Afford This ... it is not illegal but it certainly is improper. ..." Newshawks recalled that Charley's client's Station WLW ("The Nation's Station") is currently in bad grace with some members of the all-powerful Federal Communications Commission, particularly Commissioner George Henry Payne. But WLW got a routine extension of its increased power grant just after it hired Charley Michelson...
...seem less medical than Mephistophelean. Last month he appeared before the convention of the American Medical Association to predict that doctors were in danger of becoming nationalized as officers of the Federal Government in recompense for which the Government might pay the medical bills of citizens who could not afford to do so themselves (TIME, June 21). Last week, Senator Lewis took a step toward making the nationalization of doctors a reality by introducing a bill in the Senate to make all U. S. physicians and surgeons civil officers of the Government. The bill's provisions: "Any such physician...
...Woolf sort of character, is the author's voice for a detached account of Cathedral life. Added to these central characters are the staff of functionaries who make up the tightly-organized, beautifully-landscaped, fabulous world of a great English cathedral. Lay characters appear in sufficient numbers to afford a gossip circuit between the Cathedral and the town-a female psychiatrist belonging to the "generation of blue-stockings who were defined as women who were no longer ladies, but had not yet become gentlemen," a neurotic old maid on a manhunt, uninhibited servants. It is a lay character also...
...Marines, has kept up on interests but is behind on sinking fund payments. In national credit standing Argentina outranks all Latin America but several Argentine city and provincial issues have defaulted. Like Canada, where the sins of Alberta are not visited on the federal credit, Argentina can now afford to draw the line between local and national credit. The Argentine Republic has been able to launch a refunding program for its dollar bonds, selling 4% issues in the U. S. to pay off the old 6% series. All the rest of Latin America with dollar bonds outstanding is in default...
...open letter to Editor & Publisher, Publisher Hearst explained: "The newspapers that are favorites with me are the newspapers that are favorites with the public. . . . Unsuccessful newspapers are a luxury which cannot be afforded and which one has no RIGHT to afford in-definitely...