Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confer with Chairman Glass. Instead he kept Senator Byrnes-sardonically referred to by Mr. Glass as "the real Chairman of the Committee"-running to the telephone to confer on Franklin Roosevelt's desires. But when the bill got in trouble, when the Committee liberals voted to boost the low relief wages which Franklin Roosevelt had planned ($50 a month) up to "the prevailing scale of wages" (i. e. in most cases union wages), President Roosevelt got crusty Conservative Glass on the wire to seek his aid. The liberal amendment would not only boost the expected cost of work relief...
...Aware that an adverse decision would boost the Federal debt about $10,000,000,000, would wipe out the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, would have a highly deflationary effect upon their program, New Dealers began to figure what to do. They considered: 1) enlarging the Court so that the President could pack it with new members favorable to his cause; 2) declaring a moratorium until a Constitutional Amendment could be adopted forbidding the Court to declare Federal laws unconstitutional, declaring it retroactive; 3) paying in gold as demanded and establishing a 60% tax to get back the excess...
...with a Lady Bountiful gave her a social secretary's job on easy street. A rich young socialite fell in love with her, and Etta leaned the same way herself, but she was a little too cautious to let go entirely. The War separated them, gave Etta another boost up the economic ladder. On his first leave Etta was prepared to give him all, but at the last minute her finer feelings overcame her. When they met again, it was too late, she was about to have a baby by a middle-aged barrister, whom Etta had tricked into...
...carry vast inventories which in meat's present upward swirl have proved wonderfully profitable. Employment is at least 110% of normal. Last week, after decorous palaver with employe representatives, the Big Four consented to up wages 8%. Topping an 18% increase at the start of NRA another 10% boost last December, last week's raise put the industry's wage scales above 1929 levels. Little packers throughout the Midwest promptly followed suit...
...nearly starved, but hung on, sold a few "poems," helped edit Puck for six months, got a lift here, a boost there, made friendships with other writers, editors, artists. Markets opened and checks began dropping in. His peak year was 1913 when he was taken into the Players' Club ("the best club in the world") and covered the World Series in verse for United Press...