Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of State." It took Mr. Roosevelt less than a minute to sign the commission. "Let it be understood," the new Secretary of State told the President, "that henceforth I will act as the nation's executive. You may continue to live here at the White House and draw your salary but you will do and say only what I tell you. If not, you and Vice President Garner will be dealt with as I think best. In that event, as Secretary of State, I shall succeed to the Presidency, as provided by law." The President nodded assent...
...payrolls. In Ohio 3% was proposed. When a man becomes unemployed there is a "waiting period" before benefits begin: in England six days; in Wisconsin two weeks; under the Ohio plan three weeks. Then the unemployed, having registered at an official employment office, begin to draw benefits: in England 15s 3d ($3.81) per week; in Wisconsin 50% of weekly wages but not less than $5 nor more than $10; in Ohio 50% of weekly wages but not more than $15. Obviously some workers soon exhaust their benefits and are in need. Then relief organizations take them over and they...
...owned by Americans in foreign countries." Admiral Mahan, he said, widened the concept of national defense to include the defense of these national interests. The difficulty with these however, is that they are often contradictory, and the national government makes no attempt as a private merchant would do to draw up some balance sheet and weigh the advantages and disadvantages. It is this idea of a balance sheet that Mr. Beard laid great stress upon...
...herself cast as an ingenue in a musical piece for the first time. Lillian Emerson, another legitimate actress, is teamed with Harry Richman, the only man on Broadway who can lisp without exciting suspicion. Bob Hope, the irrepressible juvenile of Roberta, displays a pretty wit. And as a freak draw the management has hired Impostor Harry Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), who made a vaudeville appearance last year after a session in jail climaxed a series of transatlantic voyages in stowage. He impersonates himself as a high society gatecrasher...
Feeling that his biddy was not developing enough attention to his room, an irate student complained to her one morning that the dust on a table in his room was thick enough for him to draw...