Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President said: "For the fiscal year 1932 the favorable margin between our estimated receipts and estimated expenditures is small. . . . This is not a time when we can afford to embark upon any new or enlarged ventures of government. . . . [but] in the absence of further legislation imposing any considerable burden upon our 1932 finances we can close that year with a balanced budget...
...case of love at first sight with our daughter. Dr. Marianov came to our house several months ago, and from that moment Margot's heart was lost. We think the world of our new son-in-law." Next day Professor & Frau Einstein left for Antwerp to embark...
...after election. Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock was in San Francisco about to embark with two friends on the S. S. Maui for a fortnight's business-&-pleasure trip to Hawaii. Three hours before sailing time a messenger handed Mr. Woodcock a government telegram from Washington. His face puckered as he read it. Cancelling his bookings, letting his friends sail without him, he explained to newsmen: "President Hoover has called me East for a conference...
...London next morning Australia's Scullin admitted "the position is serious," but stoutly denied that his Government would ever embark on a policy of repudiation. He seemed ready to defy, if necessary, his party's will as expressed by the caucus...
Weighing his words anxiously, Mr. Graham stressed the "extreme reluctance" with which British labor would embark on a high tariff policy, left his hearers with the impression that Scot MacDonald, lifelong free-trader that he is, will soon "reluctantly" embark...