Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...internal value. "There are two sorts of stability," declared the McKenna review, "stability in internal purchasing power over other commodities and services, and in external purchasing power over other currency units. Notwithstanding the appalling experiences of recent years and their obvious association with the internal situation, it is the habit to think in terms of the second almost to the total exclusion of the first. . . . We regard as one of the major benefits of the crisis-for even a major crisis has some good results-that a statesman of Mr. Roosevelt's standing and power should have brought...
...Japanese habit is to keep the death of a national figure secret for hours or even days, the idea being that his successor can be quietly appointed by the Sublime Emperor in the interval, without too much influential squabbling or eruptions of popular unrest. One day last week studious Emperor Hirohito and shy Empress Nagako dispatched to mud-walled Changchun, the sleazy capital of their puppet state Manchukuo, a great ceremonial basket of fruit, traditional Japanese gift to the dying...
...this winter and none of the clubs cutting in on our little trade; when they passed the beer bill we were afraid it was going to run in us, but the people who drink heavily never stop, and it'll take a generation to get them Oct of the habit...
Even before the partnership blanks were distributed many a potent company had wired the President support of his program. Among the first were American Tobacco, Sears. Roebuck, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea, Florsheim Shoe. But it was the small independent employer not in the habit of telegraphing the White House who would make or break the campaign. Some doubtless would sign agreements and then secretly violate them. For such cheating some N. R. A. advisers thought they could be penalized under the National Recovery Act. Declared General Johnson: "We'll administer this thing through the squawks. When I hear...
Beginning by raising salaries, even paying the difference out of her own pocket, "Cissy" Patterson easily ingratiated herself with her staff. She dashes to the office in an open 16-cylinder Cadillac, sometimes in riding habit, sometimes in evening dress. At her command is the vocabulary of a circulation-wrangler. Often she entertains her reporters in the magnificent house on Dupont Circle (formerly Daisy Harriman's) where the Coolidges stayed following the White House fire. Also she has bought and is rebuilding the famed Dower House near Rosaryville, Md., once owned by Lord Baltimore...