Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caliente. She further charged that her mother had deprived her of an education, dressed her poorly, kept her confined, continually abused her. "She never had any affection for me, none whatsoever," moaned the girl. ''I can't account for it. I tried in every way to gain her love, but she never liked me. ... She would drink all night and drag me out of bed at 4 in the morning to tell me if I'd die she would have all my money. . . . I'd go to her room and she'd be drunk...
...their station." Back across the continent, from San Francisco, Daughter Hewitt snapped : "Mother has always felt that way about men in uniform, so naturally she expected me to. ... I was really forced to leave school because the fast conduct of my mother was open gossip. I could not gain entrance to good or fashionable schools because of her notorious past." Mayhem? In New Jersey it was revealed that Mother Hewitt had received some $9,000 of Daughter Hewitt's own income to pay for her sterilization. What surgical procedure had been used remained publicly in doubt. Commonest techniques...
...soldiers, mobile guards&policemen & needs no other private armies. I denounce equally the Communists whose ideal Russia, outdoes Capitalism. And I scorn such men as Remain Holland & Aristide Briand, who being the sole internationalists & brothers of men are blinded by their ideals & allow the enemies of their country to gain solid benefits, at her expense & safety, under the guise of this same internationalism. But you of the right, composed of L'Action Française the clerics, the Royalists & the pretentious. Should the country be turned over to your clique? You dare to criticize the past 60 years government...
...Jones industrial stockmarket averages stood at 144, a net gain of 38% for the year; 2) weekly carloadings were running more than 10% ahead of December 1934; 3) steel mills as a whole were operating at 47½% of capacity as against 41% the year before; 4) the Federal Reserve index of industrial production (November) stood at 97% of the 1923-25 average: twelve months before the figure was 75%; 5) the Annalist index of wholesale commodity prices was 129.4, up 8% for the year; 6) the Labor Department's cost of living index stood...
...strength of the movement as a political force. The Representative is definitely on the proverbial spot. If he refuses to play in with the Townsendites, he alienates a substantial, even a crucial sector of the electorate. For there is always the danger that his opponent will acquiesce and thereby gain the deciding margin of votes...