Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unemployment. "I am opposed to any direct or indirect Government dole. Our people are providing against distress in true American fashion. . . . Our expenditures [on public works] this year will reach about $780,000,000 compared with $260,000,000 in 1928. ... It is estimated that the Federal taxpayer is now directly contributing to the livelihood of 10,000,000 of our citizens...
Embarrassing as it is, a railroad receivership does not affect the routine of the company in striking fashion, especially where there is no question of bad management. Employes go to work as usual, trains run on schedule, salaries and wages are paid promptly. But all of this will be done in the name of Receivers Franklin and Nicodemus, not in the name of Wabash Railway Co. Instead of "President," Mr. Franklin's office door will be labeled ''Receiver." Many rubber stamps, much red ink scores of reprinted forms will be required for the new regime, but routine...
This ideal man is to have a formidable sum of attributes. In the first place, he is to possess a broad knowledge that will enable him to visualize the needs of the community and fashion the educational scheme of his school accordingly. Such a man is expected to accept a position that yields a salary seldom exceeding four figures...
...reader, protesting that he was "forced to look to a tabloid" for the sweepstakes news. Said he: ". . . I know that you have done this by agreement with the Post Office authorities, but let me tell you that Joseph Pulitzer wouldn't have been muzzled in such a fashion." He and many another newsreader argued that the sweepstakes is legal in Ireland and therefore legitimate foreign news...
Lamplighters went out of fashion when electricity came in. Last week members of the American Physical Society, meeting in Chicago, heard Professor Charles Tobias Knipp describe a new kind of electric light which may bring lamplighters back, set them to lighting lamps with electricity once every six months. Professor Knipp had made a flask of pyrex glass of 22-litre capacity, with a stem two metres long and 70 millimetres in diameter. He pumped out the air and moisture, filled the flask with nitrogen gas, sealed it. Around the stem he wrapped a wire, touched the wire...