Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless, if in five weeks Senate and House had passed little, they had done enough spadework to insure the passage of at least one item on the President's list (a farm bill, now being rewritten in conference) several weeks earlier than otherwise. Furthermore, two items not on the original program but added later because of Recession were got under...
...have been mentioned in print at year end, had not London's blatant Daily Express been filled by a story of how the Duchess sent a doll last week to the Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME, Nov. 30, 1936, et seq.). The doll, instructed the Duchess, is not to be raffled off for charity but given to the child of an unemployed Welsh miner. "Will the little mother of this doll," wrote Last Year's Woman, "kindly name it Wallis?" During...
...firewater and long-distance telephones, his chief extravagances, to allow him pocket money. From the Saskatchewan Government Grey Owl receives $75 a month as a warden, from lectures he receives up to $500 apiece, and he has a fortune estimated at $50,000. He has also had his portrait done by Britain's fashionable painter, Sir John Lavery...
...approve of the proposal by His Majesty's Government to construe the returns so as to give itself 50%. Denounced by the Commission, the Premier wrote out and signed his resignation, left it with the King. In Court circles it was said that nothing would be done until after the New Year holidays, and by that time M. Tatarescu may conceivably have been able to line up support from other Rumanian parties for a coalition Cabinet. It was even possible that the Rumanian Nazis (who are said to shake down Mme Lupescu for such large sums-by threatening...
...touring "pilgrimage team" consisting of a minister, rabbi and priest, the N. C. J. C. has increased such activities until, last year, 25 teams traveled 25,000 miles preaching amity. Newest N. C. J. C. goodwill stunt is for a team to "bury a hatchet" in public, as was done in Seattle when Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago wielded a spade while Presbyterian Rev. Stanley Armstrong Hunter of Berkeley, Calif, and Rev. Thomas Lawrason Riggs, famed chaplain of Yale's Catholic Club, deposited a small hatchet in the cold earth...