Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia's Federal Reserve Bank, the first witness to appear before the committee in person, thought differently. The inflationary forces in the U.S., he said, were due in large part to the Government's "zeal for social justice," which has led to the writing of too many blank checks to meet demands of "all claimants in such areas as agriculture, veterans' affairs, housing and local depressed areas...
Thus, for all Snyder's talk about periodic balances, this policy of writing blank checks has actually put the budget beyond practical control. Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. admitted as much. Said he: "For any given year, it is unpractical to count on achieving any specific goal, whether it is a balanced budget or a pre-determined surplus or deficit." Such items as crop support, in which the expense cannot be totted "up in advance, "can substantially change the surplus or deficit." In short, neither Snyder nor Pace had any idea when the budget would be balanced...
...proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many organizations which wanted to abolish the tax-including church, labor, Negro and veterans' groups-fought the Byrd machine's proposal as complicated and dishonest. They feared that the blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their cause than the present $1.so-a-year poll tax. ¶In Texas, a straight anti-poll-tax 2 amendment went down by a 24,000-vote margin. ¶Campaign strategists...
...nightclub like the one in Casablanca, repeated torch-singing of a Tin Pan Alley tune) to make it a caricature of a Bogart film. Wearing his old trench coat and mouthing a cigarette. Bogart returns to Tokyo after the war to start a small freight airline backed by a blank-faced racketeer (oldtime silent Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa). By the time the comic-book plot has run its course, Bogart has saved his ex-wife (Florence Marly) from exposure as a Tokyo Rose, stopped the infiltration of war criminals, and rescued his small daughter from Hayakawa...
...pictures he had to pretty up. A stretcher-bearer in World War I, he found a sort of solace in looking at cannons, planes and tanks. The milder beauties of nature were not for him, he decided. What he wanted his paintings to rival was the harsh power and blank precision of modern machinery...