Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal money for his constituents, let him have nearly all of their State's WPA patronage. Last year Senator Bilbo used it, on the expiration of Governor Conner's term, to get his friend Hugh White elected Governor. When Governor White gave Pat Harrison credit for getting big Federal appropriations for Mississippi, including a $42,000,000 highway fund, the Senior Senator stood up before a joint session of the Legislature, shared the credit with Senator Bilbo and Mississippi's Representatives. Thus all went well until Senator Bilbo was well entrenched. Then last January President Roosevelt nominated...
...widespread discussion that has been carried on throughout the year within the college. Since fall, certain major aspects of the tutorial system have been strongly and consistently criticized; the need for speedy and complete revision has been pointed out time and time again, and it is distinctly to the credit of the President that in the midst of the pre-examination bustle and the Tercentenary preparations, time has been spared to make this important and highly necessary investigation...
...enacting their personal tragedy. At one point Photographers Steiner, Strand and Hurwitz grew fretful because The Plow That Broke the Plains was not forceful enough. When they saw the finished job. however, they withdrew objections. By that time two more notable names were on the film's credit list, on the Federal payroll: Composer Virgil Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts), who provided a musical score, and Alexander Smallens, who conducted...
Grand Rapids hired an industrial engineer to survey the possibilities of reopening Berkey & Gay. Grand Rapids businessmen went into a huddle with promoters. Promoter Frank Donald McKay, who had worked in Grand Rapids furniture factories as a boy. had a long string of organizations and reorganizations to his credit. Poker-faced, astute, potent in Michigan politics, he served as State Treasurer (1924-30), says that politics is his hobby, that he gives "95% of his time to business, 5% to politics...
...bear the onus of sending him to jail. When labor troubles invaded the Johannesburg mines, it was Smuts who alienated the workers by ordering out troops, arresting and deporting the labor leaders without trial. It was also Smuts who got most of the criticism, little of the credit, for the. Union of South Africa...