Word: greenbergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sarah Greenberg of Philadelphia got $4.80 a week. Out of that she spent $3 a week room rent; on the $1.80 she had left she ate "sardines and other things." But Mrs. Greenberg did not look as if $1.80 a week was quite enough. Last week, while the House Appropriations Committee debated the 1941 Relief Bill, Mrs. Greenberg and her many sisters "The Daughters of the American Depression" gathered in Washington and told how they had been getting along on relief. Wives of Congressmen and Cabinet officers came to listen also Eleanor Roosevelt...
...authorized the President to spend it within eight months. On that basis, WPA will receive almost if not quite as much as it did last year. The report added that Colonel F. C. Harrington, WPA Administrator, was making efforts to improve the agency. Mrs. Easley and Mrs. Greenberg didn't know about the race tracks and ski jumps. All they knew was that there was not quite enough oleomargarine, not quite enough sardines...
...will wham the most home runs-Joe Di Maggio, Jimmy Foxx, Hank Greenberg or Ted Williams...
Next day, a substitute teacher named Ellen S. Matthews marched into the office of Associate School Superintendent Jacob Greenberg, Dr. Altman's boss. Miss Matthews demanded a permanent job. Superintendent Greenberg explained the procedure for getting one. Suddenly Teacher Matthews seized an inkwell on his desk, let fly. Mr. Greenberg ducked. Teacher Matthews screamed, seized more inkwells, a lamp, whatever else happened to be handy, chucked them at nimble Mr. Greenberg. Police carried Miss Matthews off to Bellevue Hospital's psychopathic ward. Dr. Altman was not surprised. Said he: "It's a lucky thing she didn...
...baseball history ($20,000 more than the previous top, given Rick Ferrell by the Browns in 1929), but it made Rookie McCoy the highest-paid baseballer of the year. His 1940 income of $55,000 will be more than the salary of Joe Di Maggio, Jimmy Foxx or Hank Greenberg...