Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When my friends decided I was fit timber to deal with Herbert Hoover, I assented. I think now I may be big enough for that job, considering his weakness and vacillation. I hold the most powerful position in this Government, excepting that of the President. I accepted the vice-presidential nomination with much hesitancy for already we've whipped Hoover three times in Congress...
...than an athlete's should be, presents an awkward aspect. Languid even in responding to a new environment. Vines maintained his habit of retiring and rising early last week. In Paris, he investigated neither the Louvre nor the Folies Bergere. In London, he ordered new and wider trousers which fit him better than his old ones...
...benign folk who lived such peaceful lives. "I would have given up everything I had managed, spiritually and socially, to gather in more than 50 years to be any one of the characteristic men of Tegernsee, strong and erect, my throat filled with music." He thought he could best fit in as a grocer in Wiessee, "sleep deeply all night in the room above my produce and ... in the early morning, polish the apples and arrange fresh greens...
...buildings, 100: Federal roads, and to flood control. 15; Army be otherwise invested in & Navy housing, 25. a national public works The President was given program returning no $168,000,000 to spend revenue. A gasoline tax on public projects as he of Y^ per gal. is pro saw fit. None of this vided to amortize the c o n s t r u c t i o n w o u l d r e i s s u e . turn An revenue. increase of $1,-An increase of $1,- 500,000,000 in Recon...
...liquidation." R. F. C. cannot lend money to liquidating banks. Thus smart Banker Dawes & advisers had found a polite formula that allowed the bank the option of buttressing its capital and staying in business or giving depositors the opportunity to withdraw their funds when, as if they saw fit, without undue haste, while other Loop banks remained unaffected by the perturbations of quick liquidation. Meanwhile Central Republic was reported to be making no new loans. The Loop was calm...