Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Administrator Nathan Straus of the U. S. Housing Authority, which has been granted $800,000,000 from Congress for slum clearance since its organization 13 months ago, last week slammed his books shut, announced that the Authority was "broke but happy.'' Although there were only 46 local housing authorities when USHA set up shop, there are now 221 (in 31 States) qualified to take advantage of USHA's bargain terms-90% of the cost in longterm, low-interest loans-for slum clearance and low-rental housing programs. Not actually broke, USHA has signed $291,656,000 worth...
...Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, raised his fingers, ticked off one by one the things he would say if he were making a farm speech. When guests and host repaired to hear the candidate. Franklin Roosevelt raised his hand, ticked off practically the same things. Henry Wallace broke out in one of his engaging smiles. From that day there has been a Wallace-Roosevelt farm program, with accent on Wallace. Never in the same sense has there been a Morgenthau-Roosevelt fiscal program or a Roper-Roosevelt policy toward business...
Premier Edouard Daladier was put in power last April by the votes of the Popular Front (his own Radical Socialists, Socialists, Communists). The Premier's Popular Front support cracked after Munich. After he broke last fortnight's general strike, it washed out. Nevertheless, Edouard Daladier remained Premier of France. With Socialists and Communists voting solidly against him, with 28 members of his own party and a few others abstaining, but with almost the whole Right coming to his aid in the Chamber of Deputies, Premier Daladier won a respectable vote of confidence: 315 for, 241 against...
...sooty town of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia there was cheer one morning last week. The Princess Colliery, owned by Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd., had announced that it was putting on extra shifts so that the miners could earn something for Christmas. Shops broke out with holiday decorations and Sydney Mines was festive. But the cheer lasted only...
...Celler, a tourist from New Haven, Conn., stood up. "Anybody got a flask or something?" he coolly inquired. "I'd like to celebrate this occasion." The equerry looked a bit startled, the businessmen surveyed him askance. But Mlle Anne Chagno of Paris came characteristically into the action. She broke out two bottles of champagne. The businessmen quickly found some tumblers. Yankee Celler popped the first cork...