Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took a broad hint and dropped $2 or more into Clerk McCormick's open, cash-filled drawer, got a "God bless you." Those who paid nothing had "Cheap skate!" yelled after them. One man testified that when he gave $1, Clerk McCormick remarked with some disgust: "One lousy buck...
Important though Agriculture is, it alone does not control U. S. economy. If deflation continues through 1933 and the general trend of all prices is downward, Secretary Wallace will be unable to buck the economic tide and the Roosevelt plan will go down as a failure along with the Hoover Farm Board. If all prices start to rise on a broad front, Secretary Wallace will be able to accelerate the advance of farm values, get credit for a shining success. The major factors which will decide the economic fate of the farmer, according to Pundit Walter Lippmann, are "the monetary...
...buck-toothed Carol was feeling virtuous-having lately become interested in two new mistresses, nobly banished red-haired Jewess Magda Lupescu with a settlement of $120,000, and placated his former wife Princess Helen by agreeing to let their son Prince Mihai, 11, go to an English school. Carol sternly ordered thorough investigation of the Skoda scandal. Last week a goat had been found in handsome, white-haired General Zika Popescu, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War and Commandant of the First Rumanian Army Corps. When Popescu got the summons to appear for questioning, he wrote out farewell letters...
...songwriters beamed over their cigars last week. Since the decline of the sheet music industry many of them have been sustained by the royalties which the A. S. C. A. & P. has collected from radio stations and cinemansions. But President Gene Buck (who wrote the lyrics for "Sally, Won't You Come Back?'' and "Hello Frisco") made a speech which gave a brighter look to the song industry. When beer comes back, he said, people will be inspired to sing once more. Irving Berlin has expressed the same conviction: "Songwriters undoubtedly will be influenced by the return...
...University in considering the beer sales question, has hitherto preserved the open-mind policy with surpassing success. There have been pseudo-reversals of position; there have been mutterings as to the possibility of "unfavorable publicity"; finally, the buck was passed to the redoubtable Cambridge legislators. As a result, the undergraduate body has been left in a desert of thirsty suspense, while the rest of the nation may count the hours with reasonable certainty...