Word: glads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, who knows perfectly well that Congress will not economize in a big way: "If the statement of Mr. Eccles represents the views of the President and is endorsed by him, and he desires Congress to determine the issue, I shall be glad to assist in the formulation of a reasonable program." Said Chairman Adams of the Senate sub-committee which cut $150,000,000 from WPA's deficiency appropriation, only to have the President demand it again: "If there was some cooperation by the Administration, we might get something done...
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, April 2, from four to six o'clock...
...cannot be written about the present age; a writer needs "the perspective of years to know what most of it amounts to-if anything." Not because his theory is necessarily correct, but because he has written good U. S. historical romances (Drums, Long Hunt, et al.), readers will be glad that Bitter Creek returns to the past. Set in the West of the '70s, it is a historical close-up which confirms James Boyd's high stand in the historical-romance industry...
...interim--Harvard in limbo. But soon the interlude will vanish. Some people will be glad. They like action, things quite due, quite finished, quite ready. But the Vagabond will be sad. He is strictly an interlude lad. A lecture is now only a page of scrawled notes at the end of an hour. Soon, however, it will be a vital cog in the machinery of some course. Vag prefers them as they are now--as meaningless scratchings which have been joyfully interrupted in mid-sentence by the bonging of a bell...
...Last year, at the November election, voters passed an amendment to the constitution allowing the city to exceed its legal debt limit by $315,000,000 to effect transit unity. And by last week, when the city offered $175,000,000 for B. M. T. alone, Chairman Dahl was glad to take it, for depression and competition from the Independent have continuously weakened his position. That leaves the city $140,000,000 in City bonds to dangle before I. R. T., which is likely to bite...