Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally badgered into it, the President at last did make a gesture, a feeble, finger-twiddling gesture toward economy, but at least a move. In a special message to Congress he suggested that $109,000,000 be sliced off the $995,000,000 WPA appropriation for the 1941-42 fiscal year. This was a drop in the bucket, but economizers thought $109,000,000 better than nothing...
Harmonicist Adler, by adroit sucking and blowing, along with skillful finger work, can make his mouth organ sound like a violin, oboe, French horn, trumpet. In this week's CBS show-Lip Service, on Norman Corwin's Workshop hour-he is an appallingly corny hillbilly who imitates the sounds of a train, swings part of a Mozart violin sonata, plays Bach and variations on Turkey in the Straw...
This arrangement, worked out by Jackson and Henderson, was a rebuke to rambunctious Thurman Arnold. For some time Jackson has thought Arnold was getting too nervous a trigger finger, scattering his shot, using the laws to advance his own theories about the danger of monopoly rather than as a weapon to aid defense...
...huddles with visitors and unrolls the end of the paper. There are the years and opposite them black bars representing the money that Army Ordnance has had to spend. The black bars through the '20's and '30's are about as long as a finger nail and represent about $12,000,000 each year. To see the whole black bar for '41 he gives you the roll and you walk back ward unrolling a six-foot strip...
...struggle was on. Mr. Morgenthau had further the bad taste to recommend definitely and pointedly something the President had always delicately skirted-the actual slashing of numerous non-defense expenditures. Mr. Morgenthau pointed a finger directly at the cost of CCC and NYA, mentioning incidentally that both projects seek youths of 21 who are possible recruits for Army enlistment; also at public works, relief, the farm-parity payments in the bill now in conference between the chambers, to which the Senate has added $450,000,000. This week the White House passed word to House leaders to reject the Senate...