Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Federation of Women's Clubs adopted a truth-in-fabrics resolution. Last year the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, through a committee headed by Miss Jaffray, sent a petition to Washington demanding that all goods have labels identifying their fibre content both so buyers would not be deceived and so they would know how to treat their purchases. During the FTC's year-long study of the matter, 2,000,000 more women sent petitions seconding the idea. Meanwhile, rayon producers grew worried, presented a voluntary set of rules which they agreed...
...sports was delivering a long and vigorous talk to the first meeting of candidates for positions on the team. In polished oratorical manner he earnestly told the boys about the advantages of keeping strict training, not smoking, and above all of staying away from the evils of alcohol. Not content with merely issuing such negative orders, he decided to start the ball rolling in positive fashion, and so announced that starting on the following day, all men, who were so inclined, were to report at his room at five o'clock; from there a daily cross country run would commence...
...content with "sticking its neck out" with untrue statements, the article went on to say in petulant fashion that the University should not have paid $50,000 for two bronze rhinoceroses when the Widener Library was suffering from neglect. This puerile statement has no bearing on the case, as the money for the two mammoth creatures came from a special fund, and could not have been expended in any other fashion...
...this week, the 24th Special Session of Congress in U. S. history convened under circumstances to which Senator Ashurst's remark was peculiarly pertinent. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt last month called the Session to deal with a five-point legislative program, the U. S. was, relatively speaking, economically content. The five weeks since have been just long enough to include the first serious decline in U. S. business since 1933. To the notable opportunities for controversy already foreseen for the special session, the slump added another. This week, when Vice President Garner in the Senate and Speaker William Bankhead...
...while aviation developed with frenzied rapidity under the hypodermic of War, Willis Carrier had to content himself with conditioning munitions factories so that bombs would not go off till they had been properly dropped on foreigners. By 1919 aviation was boisterously adolescent but air conditioning, though becoming essential for such industries as rayon, cinema film, chewing gum, chocolate candy, was still an infant...