Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of them enough stock certificates and proxies to give him control of the $187,000,000 company. Sam Zemurray got into the banana business in Mobile, Ala. in the early 1900s as a jobber, later peddled United's "ripes" in New Orleans. By 1930 United was glad to buy out his plantations and fleet for 300,000 shares of United stock. Sam Zemurray has been United's managing director in charge of operations since his 1932 coup. Last week he became head of the company in name as well as fact by succeeding President Francis R. Hart...
...prefer private to public charities. Relief has been proved to be more efficiently administered through local than federal or state bureaus. Wages should be so low that workers will be glad to return to private employment. We favor depriving all persons on relief of the right to vote, until they again become self-supporting...
This arithmetic clearly showed the bill's sponsors that, of the 70-odd Senators whose votes had been counted on to pass it, a respectable majority of Democrats were glad for a chance to kill it without openly voting against it. The bill's Republican supporters, who might have been expected to vote for cloture to embarrass the Democrats, decided that since their votes could not swing it they should vote against cloture as a matter of minority principle...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all members of the faculties and their wives at the President's House, 17 Quincy Street, on Sunday afternoon, February sixth, between four and six o'clock...
Waiter Marlowe found it hard to get used to the poor wages and strait-jacket discipline of English waiters, but harder to stomach the double-dyed snobbery of his fellows, the hyper-finickiness of aged guests. He was mighty glad to go to sea again. Three months after her maiden voyage he made a trip on the Queen Mary. It was his hardest job. Eighteen-hour shifts, plus the teeth-rattling vibration in crew quarters directly over the propellers, made him pine for land once more...