Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other nations." ¶ Assembling Secretaries Morgenthau and Perkins, Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and Frank C. Walker, the President admonished them that it was none too early to begin figuring out how many billions would be needed for relief in 1937 and how many billions the Treasury could afford to offer...
...next year he took his drawings to Vienna's great Kunstakademie (Art Institute), applied for a scholarship. He was turned down, generally for "lack of talent," specifically because his drawings were too "architectural." And the orphan, who had assigned all his father's income to his sister, could not afford to take the preliminary courses necessary to become an architect...
...commission represents those Americans who are irreconcilably opposed to the domination of Cuba by American financial and industrial interests. . . . Newspaper reports indicate the complete destruction of civil liberties in Cuba. We insist upon returning. And when we come back, we will come with names they can't afford to touch.''* Next evening Odets & companions were ferried back across Havana Bay, bundled aboard the Oriente, shipped ignominiously back to Manhattan...
...final function will be not only to train some 150,000 youths for jobs but to try to get jobs for them. Explained President Roosevelt: "We can ill afford to lose the skill and energy of these young men and women." Employers "in all types of industries" will be asked to take on the Government's wards as apprentices. Some will be taken into Government offices in order "to develop a new type of trained public servant." What hard-headed realists could not understand, however, and what President Roosevelt's sweeping blueprint failed to make clear was just...
...recommend, therefore, the enactment of legislation which will make clear that it is our fixed policy to continue to treat the bondholders of all our securities equally and uniformly, to afford any holder of any gold clause security, who thinks he could by any possibility sustain any loss in the future, an opportunity to put himself immediately in a position to avoid such future loss, and to remove all possibility of any suits designed to hamper the Government in administering the public debt...