Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four weeks after becoming jobless a man should begin drawing half pay from the insurance fund or $15 a week, whichever is less. This payment should continue from 15 to 25 weeks depending on how long the beneficiary had been previously employed. After 25 weeks insurance payments should end and the unemployed person should go on work relief...
Questions. A tradition of the Supreme Court is that the Attorney General shall not be interrupted in his argument by questions from the bench. Therefore the real excitement did not begin until Mr. Cummings had finished his stump speech. Then the Justices who had asked only a few questions of the Government's opponents began to pop questions right & left at Messrs. Maclean and Reed. Some court room observers got an impression that the Justices' questions were hostile to the Government's case. Others felt that the Court, friendly to the Government's position, was trying...
...Providence station WEAN now bombard the British Isles with short wave advertisements, try to wean His Majesty's subjects from their favorite liver pills to others. The pill now chiefly plugged by President Plugge was announced before the holidays cheerily thus : "You must be ready for Christmas! Begin taking Bile Beans right away...
There are things that might be more easily taxed than burials. Why not begin with a 500% tax on Mr. Foss's necktie and a 1,000% tax on the shoe polish he consumes and 2,500% tax on the value of the church he attends...
...tent (The Road to Rome) or post-War Austria (Reunion in Vienna), Playwright Sherwood has given a humorous and dramatic three-dimensional panorama of the hamburg and gas-peddling Maples, their young, ex-fullback helper, the rich and insufferable Chisholms who drive up in their Duesenberg limousine. Things really begin to hum when Duke Mantee's mob arrives at the front end of a nation-wide manhunt...