Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improve, repair or modernize his house. He could borrow up to $16,000 from a bank to build a new house-at 5% (in some cases 6%) interest, with the total mortgage guaranteed by the Government for a premium of at least .5% when the principal did not exceed 80% of the estimated value of the property. And ''V nited dividend corporations could get insurance on mortgages up to $10,000,000 on the same terms for large scale developments for rent to "persons of low income." The net results of all this propping and sharing...
Stressed by the President was the recommendation that the farm program's cost should not exceed the current "soil conservation" appropriation of $500,000,000. Asked how he reconciled this with the fact that the Farm Bill made no provisions for raising the additional $250, 000,000 which it will probably cost the Government, the Committee's Chairman Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had no answer, left to the House the problem of raising additional revenue for the payments. Meanwhile last week, the House Agriculture Committee under Marvin Jones was working on a Farm Bill...
...suave cardinal on a secret visit from Rome announces that Mother Church considers it unwise to recognize the miracle officially. Assuming that Father Malachy intended to cleanse the parish morally, the cardinal reasons: ''If priests were to make a habit of moving cabarets every time they exceed the theological definition of chastity . . . the air would be filled with flying cabarets...
...transgression of slipping away from a morning task for a siesta in the wood shed with a huge basket of butternuts. I was fond of them and the supply so generous I indulged past discretion. I fain recall a most distressing followup, which, I am sure, would equal or exceed any after effects of home-stirred apple butter. With this recital I hope to qualify as a member of the "Butter Stirrers" in full and regular standing...
...that the late Senator Guglielmo Marconi left a fortune of about $25,000,000. As a close friend of Marconi for many years, I saw the members of his family while in Europe. They told me that the gross value of the estate left by the Senator will not exceed...