Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular activities of the Government," declared the President, "I will need a total of $5,069,000,000. These regular activities include interest on the public debt, major public works, operations of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Agricultural Benefit payments, but do not include strictly Work Relief items. I expect to pay for these regular activities with estimated receipts of $5,654,000,000, leaving an excess of receipts of $585,000,000. . . . The item for relief remains. Without that item the budget is in balance." Last year and the year before Franklin Roosevelt also announced that the Government...
...honest Cincinnatians freed their city from boss rule by voting a new city charter, entrusting municipal affairs to a nine-man council which elected one of its number mayor and chose a city manager. Only the dreamiest idealists expect an aroused citizenry to burn with reforming zeal all year round. But, as successive city campaigns have shown, Cincinnati's voters are not very excited about their reform government even on election day. Last November the City Charter Committee (reform) Administration again excited the admiration of less fortunate U. S. communities by floating $2,000,000 worth of long-term...
...case, McGill is a much more powerful team than its fellow countrymen from Toronto, and the Crimson must expect its hardest battle of the season. Men like Crutchfield and Melkeljohn are persistently dangerous...
...American farmers will continue to expect some kind of governmental aid. I believe that they will be given some kind of subsidy because they held the balance of power in our bi-party system. I believe that some kind of aid is due them because they produce and rear the great bulk of the citizens of the United States. For instance, in 1930 farm people had twice as many children per 1000 women 15 to 45 years of age as did the cities...
...Deal. Few months ago Dr. Sassard wrote of his patient: "The Emperor will undoubtedly fight at the head of his troops." In ringing proclamations His Majesty has more than once promised to do so. Simple Ethiopians expect any ruler worth his salt to remain for the duration of the war physically in the thick of the fight. Instead, both before hostilities began and since. Haile Selassie has kept Europe's diplomats well supplied with offers to make peace by selling or bartering parts of the empire, emitting at the same time declarations to the world press that he will...