Word: earmarking
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...House bloc headed by New York's Alfred Beiter was determined to get nearly half of the relief appropriation earmarked for the heavy permanent projects of Secretary Ickes' PWA. Their argument: not only does PWA give the country something for its money, it is boosting the construction and other heavy industries back to normal. At the White House last week President Roosevelt, who is sold on Harry Hopkins' quick jobmaking, said NO to this Congressional group, refused to haggle over a $400,000,000 compromise. Calling a Democratic caucus, the bloc was voted down...
Meantime Marius' household pursues its usual temperamental tenor. The five disciples hate each other, scribble notes for their forthcoming biographies (they all know Marius is dying), try to maneuver the sick man into tête-à-tête walks. Lewis, "deeply insincere," has more than one earmark of J. Middleton Murry, one of Lawrence's biographers. Others are Robert, a timid soul; his wife Hilda, who married him because Marius suggested it but who nurses a platonic passion for the Master; Mark, a bully; Johnny, a poet who is not a gentleman and is very self...
...first novel. Though not a formal sequel, Girl Alone is a further chronicle of maidenly adventure. Baroness Hatvany (Christa Winsloe's married name) is a prize-winning European sculptress as well as a writer, and this tale of regretful nubility in pre-War Munich bears many an earmark of first-hand experience...
...field, if he realizes the fact that it is his job to impart some of that interest to his audience, the one remaining requisite is a certain case in expressing himself. Facility in talking to others is, then, the quality which, more than any other, is the earmark of the successful lecturer. Without it, his knowledge, however voluminous, will avail him nothing...
...divided among what amounts to steel closets in the Federal Reserve bullion room, two closets had been prepared containing exactly $95,550,000 worth of Federal Reserve gold. At 10 a. m. Manhattan time the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street cabled to say in bankers' jargon that she had "earmarked" (with her white tags) $95,550,000 of Bank of England gold, thereby making it the property in London of the Federal Reserve. Promptly the Federal Reserve sent a blue-clad, barrel-chested guard to tie onto the two closet doors tags bearing no words but a number. This number...