Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven years, its first-year size at $870,000,000, ultimate size $3,860,000,000. Rather than rob WPA to pay PWA said he, let Congress empower the following agencies to lend (NOT spend) the following sums on the following projects, which would pay for themselves in the end, interest payments meantime causing the funds to revolve...
...House. Old Senator Glass kept the bill deadlocked in his Banking and Currency subcommittee until the White House induced Senator Miller of Arkansas to change his vote. The bill then got out to the Senate floor, with Senator Glass swearing from his sickbed that he would fight to the end against monkeying with the currency...
Senator Pittman's blackjack was potent. The harassed Senate compromised by voting back the 1937 silver price for domestic silver, barring further purchases of foreign silver (from China and Mexico). More surprising, it gave Senator Glass his victory, voted 47-to-31 to end the President's power to pare the dollar. But it gave new life to the stabilization fund, essential for U. S. participation in steadying foreign exchange with England and France...
...Monk's accusations, or the deadly criticism that Mrs. Jack shoots back. Because she always comes back for more, however, because they make up from time to time and declare "Was there ever love like ours?" it is a long time before the final parting. Near the end Monk makes his bitterest accusation: "I've lost my squeal" -meaning his "wild goat-cry of pain and joy and ecstasy...
...hear them out. Nevertheless they could try to protect her from each other, from Aunt Sissie's money, from a pesky lady folklorist home from Italy, and from the consequences of her own kind deeds. Only her two grown children appreciated how little protection Lavinia needed. In the end, when her witlessness and her ability to muddle through had proved a match for each other, Mrs. Brandon looked at her lovely hands and said to her latest admirer: "I was married very young and knew very little. It's a stupid story...