Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only twenty-five per cent of the state's registered voters bothered to vote at all; of these half were either too lazy, or too undecided as to whom they wanted, to write down their choice for President. Roosevelt had twenty thousand supporters, and the eight delegates pledged to him were elected with almost no opposition. Seventy thousand citizens took the trouble to write in Landon's name; the Republican delegates, though unpledged, will hardly be apt to defy such a clearly expressed sentiment...
Fortnight ago lively Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped briskly before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee to plead for an increase of $1,025,000 in his organization's 1937 spending money. Kidnapping would sweep the country again, he said, if one cent were slashed from the proposed amount. Promptly Tennessee's McKellar launched a blistering attack on the Bureau for strong-arm methods, swell-headedness. "It seems to me," the vociferous Senator snapped, "your department is just running wild." Evidently more impressed by Senator McKellar than by Director Hoover, the subcommittee sliced...
...much as possible like the World, only he would out-World the World and out-Pulitzer Pulitzer. . . . One day Hearst was introduced to Pulitzer. . . . Pulitzer patted him on the back. He was almost inclined to pity him. . . . Then suddenly the price of the Morning Journal dropped to one cent. Into the office of the World the news crashed like doom. . . . In truth, the World's profits each day lessened...
Senator Marcus Allen Coolidge, Democrat, whose term expires this year, yesterday made a determined bid for Harvard votes by introducing in the Senate a bill to authorize a special 3 cent stamp commemorating the Tercentenary celebration in September...
Wooing Problem, Finished with an "election" in which the loss of even one per cent of the vote was surprising. Adolf Hitler last week turned back to the difficult international front where the Locarno Powers were waiting for him to make amends for his remilitarization of the Rhineland. In the glass and steel elegance of the Reichskanzler Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse, the Realmleader summoned his foreign policy favorites: Special Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin Neurath, Nazi Foreign Affairs Expert Alfred Rosenberg. Germany's problem: to woo Great Britain away from France and split the Locarno Powers...