Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emergency Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who had previously in the day pointed to 14 states as shirkers of their relief burden,* had his chance to say what he thinks, as opposed to what he does. Barked he: "I am thoroughly fed up on cities and states passing the buck to us, when people in their communities need and are not getting relief. And I am beginning to think, of some states now represented in this room, that we might better move right out and say to such people. 'If you don't care for the people...
...headlong into it. When Mrs. Meloney pushed a card at Theodore Roosevelt reading "You have one more minute," that speaker swept it aside and talked for three more about "worthwhile work." There was a session on "Changing Standards in the Arts," with contributions from Will Irwin, Hugh Walpole, Pearl Buck, Lawrence Tibbett, Harvey Wiley Corbett, a session on Youth, a session on "The Struggle for Security." But best of all, to many and many a woman in the audience, was a session on "The Changing Status of Women...
...case of error. It is true that the President still works the pedals, but obviously he cannot devote the time to the machine that the old autocrat could, and Richberg is not likely to run amuck as did Johnson. Debate and recommendations will ensue, and fertile ground for buck-passing cleared. In short, the indications are that NRA under any new combination of initials is on the skids, however inadequately they may appear to be greased at present...
...Malott, who has been publicizing the Business School, will talk on "The Young College Man in the Depression." The speech will be put on the National Broadcasting Company's chain. Other speakers at the session will be Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, Will Irwin, Glenn Frank, Pearl Buck, Hugh Walpole, Dorothy Thompson, Emily Post, Dr. Stanley King, Miss Frances Perkins, and Robert M. LaFollette...
...reaching a goal if not to build a football team? Quake property, the eastern coaches rear to meet the Yale chimpanzees on the gridiron. Their boys would have no chance at all against a team who see players could leap mine fact in the air on a line "buck or Jerk down a runner with a single hairy paw. Chicago Daily Tribune...