Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Message which made national defense the paramount purpose of the day. He followed his request for a major controversial item of expense-Relief-with a Budget Message which contained an uncontroversial new national defense figure-only $500,000,000 extra instead of the billion many observers had expected. This brought him to his first two problems...
...Peroration of Mr. Roosevelt's sixth Annual Address brought all hands up unanimously once more. "Dictatorship . . . involves costs which the American people will never pay . . . spiritual values. . . . The blessed right of being able to say what we please . . . freedom of religion . . . seeing our capital confiscated . . . being cast into a concentration camp. The cost of being afraid to walk down the street with the wrong neighbor . . . of having our children brought up . . . as pawns molded and enslaved by a machine...
British Publisher Allen Lane, whose sixpenny paperbound Penguin and Pelican have flooded British newsstands and brought him a fortune, left London for India, Burma and Siam. Purpose: to investigate the possibilities of publishing paper-covered books in Basic English (850 words which "do all the work of 20,000") for use East of Suez...
Last week, having labored to level local obstacles and brought all the utilities except big Nebraska Power Co. into line, Banker Myers rejoiced at a milestone which seemed to assure complete success for the "Myers Deal." The Federal Power Commission approved the sale to his clients of the Nebraska part of Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Co., second biggest in the State, for $20,195,991-a compromise figure considerably higher than FPC's cost valuation but slightly under Iowa-Nebraska's original cost valuation...
...afternoon in late 1930 a peal of the gong brought trading on the New York Stock Exchange to a halt and President Richard Whitney mounted the rostrum to announce the suspension of J. A. Sisto & Co. for inability to meet its obligations. One morning last week a peal of the gong brought trading to a halt and Exchange Chairman Edward E. Bartlett Jr. mounted the rostrum to announce the first suspension since Richard Whitney & Co. was expelled last March. It was J. A. Sisto...