Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show that the National Debt had risen only 740 millions* the smallest rise since 1931. He could say these things because of: 1) some real reductions in Government over-head at the start of the year; 2) the greatest Treasury receipts since 1920, from taxes levied on business done in the most prosperous portions of calendar...
...whole, he reported, in its last session the 75th Congress had done better than any Congress "between the end of the World War and the spring of 1933": It had failed him on Reorganization and on helping the railroads, but it had passed much excellent legislation, notably the Wages & Hours Bill. Here came crack No. 2. "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money...
...Minister. The airplanes which attacked British ships came from the Italian front in the Balearic Islands. I would first of all have seen these air-dromes destroyed until they stopped sending bombing planes against our ships. If Gladstone, Campbell-Bannerman, or Asquith had behaved as the Prime Minister has done they would have been howled down and execrated," scorned the white-haired old Liberal...
...Jones Beach operetta, pretty June Havoc (real name: Evangeline June Hovick), sister of Louise Hovick (Gypsy Rose Lee), announced: "My sister always was the beauty of the family. All of a sudden people tell me I'm beautiful. Maybe the pills I've been taking have done...
...Theory, this was "more bullish than anything seen in the averages for more than two years." But Robert Rhea warned that though this meant that the secondary trend (wave) had changed from bear to bull, there was still no proof that the primary trend (tide) had done the same...