Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Screwiest mixup was in Baltimore, where the voters had authorized a $10,000,000 bond issue for new schoolhouses in May 1939. But dawdling Mayor Howard W. Jackson, having spent less than $100,000 of it, seized upon national defense last week as a pretext for halting school construction altogether. His excuse: building costs were high; labor and steel were scarce; it would be better to spend the $10,000,000 after the emergency to relieve unemployment. Informed of the mayor's action at a press conference last week, youth-minded Eleanor Roosevelt exclaimed: "Horrible...
...That is the indestructible bond that is between us-all of us Americans: interdependence of interests, privileges, opportunities-interdependence of rights...
...Treasury Department-now in the midst of a 13-week run over CBS-has decided to continue this winter over NBC. Well it might. In the past month it has become the nation's most popular radio entertainment and made Thursdays and Fridays the best bond-selling days...
Radio manufacturing has recently looked like the first U.S. consumer industry to take the guns-v.-butter dilemma in its stride. Although it faced a 75% cut in its normal business and already felt the metals shortage, Bond P. Geddes, executive vice president of the Radio Manufacturers Association, last fortnight said the industry had "no squawks." But last week he was squawking as hard as the rest...
...Atherton report produced only two concrete results: dismissal of 13 policemen who were embarrassingly rich and passage of a California law requiring bail-bond firms to be licensed by the State Insurance Department. Brassy Pete McDonough who well knew that the law was directed against him, tried three times to get a license. At the last hearing, in March, he produced as character witnesses Police Chief Charles Dullea, the State Highway Commission chairman, two police commissioners, three city supervisors-all of whom called him a gentleman and a scholar. Only effect of this testimony was to move Insurance Commissioner Anthony...