Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Douglas, who was awarded an honorary LL.D. here in 1933 "for saving the national credit by wise and just economy" has won his reputation through government service. When he served in Congress from 1927 to 1933, he criticized the Hoover Administration for failing to take sufficiently decisive action to achieve recovery. At that time, he was generally regarded as a liberal...
Upon his appointment as Director of the Budget in February, 1933 he became a leading figure in the new deal. Credit for the Economy Bill and the cuts in bonus payments has been attributed to him. As the succeeding months brought tremendous increases in government expenditures, however, the gulf between the beliefs of Roosevelt and his close adviser was uncovered...
...alert Reader Robbins, credit for neat metaphor-mixing, equal to TIMES inept: "Last week . . . they rang their curtain up again and set out on a new tack...
...record that any college coach point to with justifiable pride. For in this baby of Harvard sports, the Crimson has won 26 of its 31 meets and B. U. according to all predictions is bound to be victim No.27. Of the five defeats, four went to the credit of Yale, which annually reached the ultimate in piscatorial perfection. The lone legitimate trouncing was at the hands of West Point...
...princess. When he meets the Princess (Kitty Carlisle) in Monte Carlo, it takes him no time at all to learn that she considers radio crooners at the bottom of the social scale. He buys the hotel in which she and her imprudent relatives are living on their dubious credit, impersonates a menial effectively enough to gain his ends...