Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate: ¶ Passed a bill extending until June 30. 1939 the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 (continuing the $2,000,000.000 Stabilization Fund and the power of the President to fix the gold content of the dollar anywhere between 50% and 60% of its old weight); sent it to the House. ¶ Suspended its rules by unanimous consent in order to confirm without referring to committee the nomination of James Aloysius Farley as Postmaster General (only member of the Cabinet whose term of office automatically ends with that of the President); confirmed the nomination of Charles Edison as Assistant Secretary...
...when the exams came, lo what a change was there! He took the assignment and gave it to one of the humbler members of his staff. The slave took the books and retired into the silence, returning presently with the content of the course chewed, thoroughly digested, and regurgitated upon five or six type-written sheets for our hero's convenience...
...credit, English F packs in for one half year all the men trying to learn to speak. It is usually the beginning and cud of their training, for they cannot waste creditless half years in English E and H. Two impromptu talks and three exercises in delivery are the content, along with five major speeches sandwiched between lectures on subjects like persuasion and commanding attention. The semester is capped, mirabile dictu, by a written examination. Thus in effect the sole course, English F tries to accomplish too much, skimming lightly over each topic and leaving the majority of students barely...
...still a decided minority of the industry's 450,000 employes. Formed was a Flint Alliance of 8,500 citizens, headed by onetime Mayor George Boysen. to combat the strike. In Flint and elsewhere some 47,000 G. M. employes were reported to have signed petitions declaring themselves content with their lot, anxious to keep on working. President Martin cried "vigilantes" at the Flint Alliance, denounced Leader Boysen as a onetime G. M. paymaster, accused G. M. of obtaining the petition signatures by intimidation, promised to complain to the National Labor Relations Board. But that many...
...editors, while realizing that the Duke of Kent might possibly create enough scandal to affect the Royal Family, were mostly content to play down...