Word: cloaked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just to show what figure jugglers can do when they get started here is a little not of statistics prepared by a financial "expert" and passed around Washington bars and cloak rooms: "Population of U.S. reported at 124,000,000 "Those eligible for old age pensions under several plans 50,000,000 74,000,000 "Number of Government job holders and persons prohibited by child labor lawn from working 60,000,000 "Leaves just 14,000,000 "Persons unemployed 13,999,998 "Balance to produce the nations goods Just you and me, and I'm all worn...
...Chicken Survey." Michael Weintraub, a onetime cloak & suit man, was not happy about his relief job. That job was to go from door to door, ask each New York housewife her origin, nationality, family income, number in family, number of children, number of servants, number of boarders; whether she had bought any poultry in the past seven days; if so, what day, what kind of fowl, what weight, what cost per Ib.; was it slaughtered in New York; was it plucked? He was also supposed to gather data on eggs, but Michael Weintraub said sadly that the door was usually...
...first year and who warns his faculty in form letters that their contracts may not be renewed. They found that his purge of liberalism has left every faculty member fearing for his job. They found that the charge of irreligion against Professor Turner was in large part a cloak for objections to his social and economic views...
Silk hats shone as they were handed in at the cloak room. Shirt studs twinkled on the spotless expanse of many a broad political bosom. Legislators' ladies beamed right and left under their freshly marcelled hair. Round & round couples cumbrously revolved to music. Many a white-gloved hand was wrung enthusiastically. And the most smiles, the most handshakes, the most congratulations were reserved for one man. It was a fine thing to be a governor and attend your own inaugural ball -ten years...
Since President Roosevelt cast the cloak of his popularity over Dictator Stalin by recognizing the Soviet Union (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933), the U. S. Press last week breathed no such denunciation as at Adolf Hitler's "blood purge." In Moscow the U. S. Embassy sent expressions of sorrow at the assassination of Comrade Kirov, Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei." In Washington, however, Senator William Edgar Borah, longtime champion for recognition of the Soviet Union, boomed: "As far as I can determine, from the few facts I have been able to get, these executions were wholly unjustifiable and indefensible...