Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postmasters general, told them something had to be done to reduce these ever-increasing shortages, to put the postal service on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. What concerned the President chiefly was the sudden leap in this year's deficit and the prospect of similar shortages to come. The Post Office Department has not been on a paying basis since Frank H. Hitchcock was Postmaster General (1909-13). In 1924 the deficit was 13 millions; in 1928, 32 millions. Fiscal 1929's "operating" deficit was 95 millions, to which had to be added 42 millions for back...
Married. Gladys Glad, 21, "highest paid" showgirl (Whoopee, Rosalie, Rio Rita, No Foolin'); to Mark Hellinger, 31, newspaperman; in Manhattan. To a fellow newsman Mr. Hellinger wired: "When we get back from Hollywood you must come over and meet the wife?but not too often...
...Omaha citizens are more respected than affluent Mr. Zimman. One night last week Mr. Zimman was called (he says) to the telephone at his home. A friend was seriously ill. Did Mr. Zimman have a little alcoholic stimulant? Mr. Zimman did. Well, a friend of the friend would come down to the corner to get it. Mr. Zimman carefully wrapped a whole gallon jug of liquor in a paper and, without coat, without collar, went out to wait on the corner. A car drove up. To the two men in it Mr. Zimman passed his jug. They took...
Cousin Ramsay: "I say with all my heart that I associate myself absolutely with what the leader of the Opposition says about the great desirability of personal conference between those who bear the burden of state and those with whom they come in contact. But I will communicate to the honorable gentleman when I am in a position to make a definite statement as to what arrangements have been made...
...truculent Chamber that they must ratify the Mellon- Berenger debt agreement, a matter upon which not only France's commercial credit but the future of the Poincare government depended. M. Poincare's step was confident. Since the Chamber adjourned the week before a new weapon, a new persuader, had come into his hands. Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, had announced that if France paid the U. S. the $400,000,000 which nonratification of the debt agreement entailed, Great Britain would insist on the immediate payment of a like sum against her debt bill...