Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that there is no evidence whatsoever that the Supreme Court stands or has stood in the way of the efforts of the Federal Government to provide work for the unemployed, to protect home owners and farm owners from foreclosure, to guarantee the safety of bank deposits, to expand credit or restrict it, to protect the small investor on the Stock Exchange, to adjust the value and nature of the currency or to do any one of many other things in the interest of the little fellow...
...Lenin did that "Electrification, plus the Soviet Power, equals Socialism!" This dazzling equation was given practical expression by erecting the great Dnepr dam, on which 30,000 Russians toiled for five years under Russian engineers topped by U. S. Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper who always gave them every credit, received a reputed $125,000 in cash, had a onetime chef-to-the-Tsar cook his meals and also enjoyed a private car. Today all standard Soviet handbooks state that "nine" Dnepr hydroelectric turbines are, not only built but "in operation." In the power house last week Ambassador Davies...
Last week a woodcut of St. Lydwina on ice, probably the earliest skating print in existence, was a feature of an exhibition of sporting prints and paintings at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. If the Museum staff was only vaguely familiar with sporting art, this was not to its credit. Besides the skating woodcut, there were assembled a Rembrandt etching of a tired golfer, another skating scene by Rowlandson, etchings by Goya, five fine bronzes by Degas, a Hogarth cockfight, lithographs by George Wesley Bellows. A large proportion of the other sporting pictures were of horses, hounds and hunting. More...
...story, "Crack up," on the credit side are found the perennial, satisfactorily sinister Teuton, Peter Lorre, and a new scene for a climax, an airplane floating on the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, uninterrupted dialogue of a third or four the hand nature makes the total insultingly familiar. We found ourselves speaking the actors' lines in advance...
...have had the good sense to avoid deliberate burlesquing, and have let the play burlesque itself. The contrast of the serious treatment (at least fairly serious treatment) with the ludicrous pathos of the melodrama, is undoubtedly the funniest effect that could be obtained from the material. Much of the credit for this restraint is due to director Howard Mumford Jones, the well-known novel man. He has, however, let none of the grandiloquence escape...