Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, also a Democrat, attacked the system of giving Federal aid to the states in road building, etc., on a 50-50 basis (the U. S. giving a certain amount to spend in certain ways for certain purposes, provided the state will contribute an equal amount). He condemned it because it was a way for the Federal Government to gain control over state activities in a manner never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution. He attacked it also because it was unfair in its operation: in that Nevada, at one extreme, paying...
...subsidize industry instead of subsidizing the jobless, which would have the effect of increasing employment. He then catalogued all the forms which subsidies might take: "Either by bounties on production or on export or subsidies of specific contracts or orders mainly for export or subsidies for specially distressed districts, aid in the rates to take the burden off those who manufacture in the district, or a subsidy to bring down freight rates on railways...
Summer evenings are best endured with the aid of the following follies: Rose-Marie, The Student Prince, Engaged, Artists and Models, Grand Street Follies, Louie the 14th; Lady, Be Good; George White's Scandals, Garrick Gaieties...
...election of officers-was a movement to enlist the support of all Jews, Zionist and non-Zionist, for the construction of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The movement received practically unanimous endorsement and called upon the World Zionist Congress, which meets in Vienna in August, to accept non-Zionist aid...
...which Daniels was seated, left the rails, bumped up beside the locomotive. Clouds of searing steam, pouring from the boiler, hissed through the car's open door. Daniels plunged through the scalding vapor to shut the door. He was alive when rescuers entered. Taken outside, he refused first aid. "Fix that little girl first," said he. Doctors obeyed, returned to find Daniels dead...