Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, how could any one be elegant in a pair of those inelegant, nondescript, outmoded golf trousers? I ask...
...seemed completed since it was occupied in 1935; the addition of 335 new employes to the Railroad Retirement Board; addition of 1,469 new workers to the Veterans' Administration (the State Department got only 35 additional employes). Sniffing such apparent piecrust, citizens could well ask: Where is the sacrifice? The broad outlines of the Budget were simple, partly because the size of the figures made them incomprehensible. In the current fiscal year, ending June 30, 1941, the President was trying to spend $13,202,370,970; would try to spend $17,485,528,049 in the next fiscal year...
...convention last week. When they gathered, the price of No. 1 steel scrap was $23.50 a ton, and heading up. Up rose Price Commissioner Leon Henderson, addressed the scrapmen like a Dutch uncle. Said he, referring to his deal with the scrapmen last fall: "The Government didn't ask for a written guarantee. We went away from the meeting with the feeling that we would get a large volume of scrap at decent prices but . . . the price has been inching up and inching up, and the required quantities of scrap have not been coming out. . . . We will...
...People's Convention is a group of trade unionists and left wing affiliates in England who are demanding a "people's government" to take the place of the Churchill administration, an immediate peace with Germany involving no reparations or exchange of territory, and who ask for liberation of colonies and subject peoples...
...later Prospector Gimlett had all the backing a man could ask for. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles recommended to Congress and the Administration a succinct and vigorous plan for revising U. S. fiscal and monetary policies. The plan carried the unanimous support of the board's members. It set a precedent. Never before in its 26-year history had the board come out openly and firmly for specific fiscal legislation...