Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think, however, admission should be charged, if only a nominal sum, say a thin dime. The proceeds could then be used for large departmental teas, which would do much to promote the esprit de corps, to use a French expression...
Hopkins (on Talmadge): "All that guy is after is headlines. He never contributes a dime, yet he's always yapping. Some people just can't stand to see others making a living wage...
...jobs. While relief officials were investigating, Georgia's Governor Talmadge charged that CWA was also hiring help away from the farm. He complained that Federal authorities would not listen to his protests. CWAdministrator Hopkins retorted: "All that guy is after is headlines. He doesn't contribute a dime but he's always yapping. Some people just can't stand to see others making a living wage." Three days later NRAdministrator Johnson leaped into the controversy to declare: "It's perfectly absurd for CWA to pay higher wages than private industry can afford to pay under...
Carry only what money you need before you get to Texas. Yon will not be able to spend a dime in the State of Texas...
Huey Long never at any time ordered the deduction of so much as a thin dime from the pay envelope of an officeholder compelled to do Long's bidding or lose his job, to be turned over to the New Orleans States...