Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official letters, free stationery, free clerk hire and (for Senators only) free snuff and free mineral water. Although not really a member of Congress, the Vice President shares most of these, has one extra one of his own?an official automobile. But for 146 years there was one fat Congressional perquisite that no Vice President ever got?travel allowance. Last week Vice President Garner got that perquisite...
...proposal (see p. 13) President Roosevelt worked long & hard last week over a tougher, more immediate problem -Relief. He had made it his peculiar personal problem when he asked and got from Congress $4,000,000,000 and the right to spend it as he saw fit. With this fat fund firmly in hand, his promise to the country was to end the dole and give 3,500,000 jobless real jobs. And by last week he was up against a hard mathematical fact: $4,000,000,000 divided among 3,500,000 jobs gave only...
...hissing sound, like when some little distended vesicle is perforated." For the next 27 years Swedenborg made almost daily excursions through Heaven and Hell, heard the meaning of the Scriptures expounded by angels, spirits and the Lord Himself. All that he saw & heard he dutifully set down in 29 fat Latin volumes...
...club leader who inaugurated the local singing groups. In the opera the heroine, Arline, was played by Virginia Broome Mullane, a farmer's wife who has two children, sings in a church choir. Thaddeus was Evan Davies who studied music in Chicago, now rides a tractor across the fat fields of Iowa. The Gypsy Queen was a chicken authority, Devilshoof one of the smartest farmers in Hardin County...
More important last week than the passage of the resolution extending the remnants of NRA until April 1, 1936 was Senator Huey Long's filibuster against that measure. The filibuster resulted in Long's losing a fat wad of prestige, and the methods used to break his obstructionism, having once been found, are not likely to be forgotten, whereas NRA, as extended, can have no prestige, must be forgotten soon...