Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiscal 1940 will not have been swaddled in Franklin Roosevelt's budget message until this week, but its pre-natal cries promised a worthy successor to fiscal 1939. the bouncingest budget ($8,985,000,000) of all. They brought worrying to the bedside such influential Democratic physicians as John Nance Garner, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd. In Boston last month Senator Byrd expounded his worries about spending which he blamed on the "crackpot" .theories of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This week Chairman Eccles, a banker who favors...
...Christmas, and for the groves of Christmas trees he had planted and tended on his farm since boyhood. Each year he sent one of his tallest and best trees to decorate Cleveland's public square. This month The American Magazine wrote him up as an interesting American. Fame brought the world to William Case's evergreen groves: people who came at night and stole his trees by the truckload. One night last week he heard someone chopping down a tree that grew near the road. Old William Case seized his shotgun, slipped up on two figures tying...
Originally brought to the conference...
...Hayden's husband, Fred, brought suit against Dr. Schroeder, demanded damages of $10,000. Last week a Chicago jury decided that whatever negligence there had been was not Dr. Schroeder's, and Widower Hayden lost his case...
...more transparent poetaster is Joseph Auslander. His poetical surfaces hide nothing. His complete visibility has attracted popular attention, and has brought him official recognition, in the shape of an appointment as consultant in English poetry for The Library of Congress. His latest book of rousing, rhythmical lyrics, Riders at the Gate (Macmillan, $1.75), his eighth and his best, is a simon-pure example of poetical swaggering...