Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Normally genial, Labor Party Leader "Old George" Lansbury smelled "corruption" in the fact that James Ramsay Mac-Donald, although no longer Prime Minister, continues to draw ?2,000 ($10,000) yearly in the sinecure of Lord President of the Council while his son Malcolm, as Colonial Secretary, draws ?,.000 ($25,000). Roared Old George: "If any local council had taken two of its members and given them relatively these same positions there would have been an instant uproar in Parliament and Prime Minister MacDonald would have protested as loudly as anyone...
Nothing much happened to draw attention to the Virgin Islands between the time the U. S. bought them from Denmark in 1917 for $25,000,000 and the day Herbert Hoover paid them their first Presidential visit in 1931. Following a brief inspection. President Hoover publicly labeled them "a poorhouse." Not bothering to mention the fact that U. S. Prohibition had ruined the Islanders by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum, the President left the three little Virgins to Civil Governor Pearson whom he had just appointed, sailed back to bigger headaches in Washington...
Wise in the ways of Congress, his Senatorial friends slipped an amendment into the Legislative Appropriation Bill which the House in behalf of its onetime Speaker gladly accepted by vote of 282-to-73. That amendment provides that the Vice President shall have the right to draw, like any Congressman, an allowance of 20¢ a mile for traveling round-trip between his home and Washington for every session of Congress. Since Uvalde, Tex. is reckoned 2,128 miles from Washington, the allowance will put an extra $851.20 into the Garner pocket...
...public destitution in the history of the U. S. will get about $220,000,000, just over 5%. To see that the jobless get it with minimum inefficiency is Soldier Johnson's job. Responsible only to Administrator Hopkins, he will work four days a week, receive no salary, draw $25 a day for expenses...
This was a germ-proof pump. By suitable ingress and outlet, Dr. Lindbergh was able to force oxygen or other gases into the continuously circulating fluid and draw it off again. Thus he had a mechanical duplicate of the lungs, heart and blood vessels. Nothing remained but to modify this apparatus so that Dr. Carrel could attach a heart, kidney or ovary...