Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was two thumping billions more than Congress voted even in 1936, when it handed out the two-billion-dollar Soldiers' Bonus. It brought the 75th Congress' spending total to $21,656,174,000 for all three sessions. It shot the net deficit for fiscal 1938 (forecast by the President last January as $1,088.129,600) up to $1,250,000,000. For fiscal 1939 it forecasted a deficit of at least $3,722,000,000. It meant that the national debt, which stood at $37,379,410,474 on June 1, had a good chance of passing...
Among the charges brought by TVA's ousted Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan against his enthusiastic young colleague, Director David Eli Lilienthal, was the accusation that Powerman Lilienthal wanted to charge the bulk of TVA's expenses up to navigation and flood control instead of to power development, thus reducing TVA's yardstick for private power rates to pure "subterfuge." Until last week neither utility men nor the public knew just what equations TVA did use in working out its rates. Last week, as the joint House-Senate investigating committee and its counsel, Francis Biddle, squared away...
...After about 1,000 of the said match booklets had been distributed in behalf of the Plaintiff, it was brought to his attention that the Defendant had printed on the inside of each and every booklet . . . in place of the words 'Paid political adv. by G. L. Evers, Dadeville, Ala.,' the ribald and obscene picture of a boy urinating in a stream of water, and with words of warning, printed thereunder, 'Don't drink water-drink beer...
...thousand bells, a broken window and a flooded bathroom, a Goodman rhapsody and a Schubert symphony. Things they wrote home about--marks, athletics, money, and evasions. And things they didn't---applause that pleaded for more at the Old Howard, the overdue library book, the one waitress who brought boiled eggs that tasted homey, the girl picked up unexpectedly at the House dance, the unfortunate encounter with the Yard...
...fanatical hater of flies. Dose Muffin dies chasing one into a buzzsaw. Ready for burial, Dose jumps up, yells for a flyswatter. When it is brought he lies down again, swats the fly in his coffin, makes no further fuss as the dirt is shoveled over...