Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected he would ask Congress to add $25,000,000. It would be used to purchase and store strategic minerals such as zinc, chromium, manganese and tin and to buy coffee, rubber and other tropical products under a $100,000,000 four-year program which would bring total expenditures for national defense close to $2,000,000.000. No opposition was expected, as there has been no opposition to any of the record-breaking peacetime appropriations for national defense...
...conference report then arrived in the Senate for final approval. It had to lie untouched for hours while its foes used up time debating the Relief act, which also had to be finished that day. It was dinner time before Senator Wagner, in charge of the money bill, could bring...
Schumann: Duets (Lotte Lehmann soprano, Lauritz Melchior, tenor with orchestra; Victor, 4 sides). Top-notch singing of first-class Schwärmerei. One duet, a charming Germanization of Robert Burns's Wha Is That at My Bower Door?, would bring down any house...
...carbon copy, not a sequel, yet not entirely a fresh and uninfluenced cinema, Daughters Courageous has a coltish, unaffected charm, considerable wit, an ill-concealed admiration for its two picaresque but impossible male mainstays. Not calculated to stir up too much emotion, one scene in it will nevertheless bring goose-pimples to many a tough-bearded male. The scene: the girls, barbering their stepfather-elect, shaving downwards over his Adam's apple...
Lazard Brothers & Co. of London is Aryan and aristocratic, a member of the Bank of England coterie, helps back the appeasement movement in London, favors the theory that concessions to Hitler will bring Dr. Schacht and his orthodox economics back to Berlin. It has a highly lucrative and increasingly important sideline in helping frightened European capitalists put their money into good safe American dollars. On the receiving end of this flood of gold from Europe is Lazard Freres of Manhattan, not entirely Aryan, not a Wall Street insider, still correspondent (but no longer a partner) of the highly political London...