Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present public debt and men might still believe its credit good. Conceivably U. S. citizens might go to bed tonight without alarm at the $29,600,000,000 debt of the U. S. and wake tomorrow morning without faith in U. S. credit, unwilling to lend their Government another dime. Faith cannot be weighed in any scales yet invented...
...Governor of Kansas," snorted Mr. Hopkins, "has never put up a thin dime for the unemployed in Kansas. The Governor has never made an effort. Of course some cities and counties in Kansas have done well but the State has not done anything. The last thing I knew about the Governor he was trying to get money out of me to keep his schools open...
Year ago Butterick Company sold Adventure to Popular Publications (Dime Detectives, Dime Sports, Horror Stones), one of the better companies which serve 10,000,000 U. S. readers with 100,000,000 words of pulp fiction per year (TIME, Sept. 16). Last week Adventure's Publisher Henry Steegar and Editor Howard Bloomfield had an adventure of their own. Off Massachusetts their 49-ft. schooner-yacht Mariana was picked up by a gale, hurled through a granite breakwater, beached by raging seas close to Plymouth Rock...
...delights in recalling his purple past, Nelson Rounsevell is known chiefly for the autobiography he published two years ago under the title The Life Story of "N. R." or 40 Years of Rambling, Gambling and Publishing, Rumbling, Grumbling and Four-Flushing. Crudely written, paperbound, it read like a dime novel, sold for $1, proved the author to be a sentimental narcissist. Born in Nebraska of "tithing Baptists, Irish fighters and Yankee ne'er-do-wells," young Rounsevell was raised in upState New York, learned to chew tobacco before he was 12. took to sin early. (The skids to Hell were...
...when 4,500,000 U. S. youngsters deposited over $29,000,000. In schools throughout the land "home rooms" vied for banners signifying the highest average of depositors. All-city champion schools were rewarded with kind words from superintendents. And any wretched pupil who failed to deposit his weekly dime was disgraced. Since that time, annual school savings have tobogganed to about...