Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chancellor Cheered. Mr. Snowden drew cheers with a promise not to increase the British "standard income tax rate" of four shillings six pence in the pound, "highest in the world...
...drew ironic cheers by saying with a wry face: "The fall in the consumption of alcoholic liquors seems to be a permanent tendency and from the point of view of national well-being it is to be heartily welcomed, however inconvenient it may be to the Exchequer...
...Unemployment Insurance Acts did not belie their name. The revolving fund revolved and remained solvent. The workless drew out less than the workers, employers and the State paid in. No unemployed man could draw a single shilling unless he had paid his pence for 30 weeks or more. He then received only what he properly called his "covenanted benefit...
...daily wage than if forced to work regularly, and this pleases the manufacturer. There are also cases of deliberate collusion: a man works on the sly and wages are "slipped" to him, but he draws the dole as "unemployed." An adept has even been found who under seven aliases drew seven dole payments per week...
...system is in the hands of the Law, not of the stockholders, genial Chairman Charles Michael Schwab last week had the satisfaction of knowing that the meeting was a personal victory for him. When questions were hurled at him he shot answers back. When the end of the meeting drew near he delivered himself of an emotional speech which brought cheers from the shareholders. And meaningless as the vote may turn out to be, it was indicated that the management won the proxy battle by an overwhelming majority...