Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FDIC does not consider as earnings the assessments paid by insured banks. Besides its $1,000,000 net earnings on operations it collected $38,800.000 of such assessments in 1937. Last week FDIC's white-shocked Chairman Leo Thomas Crowley was pleased with his year's handiwork. Popping up in Baton Rouge before the Louisiana Bankers Conference, he declared: "We both have sizable sums wagered on the ability of American banks to live down the unsavory aspects of their past record and to begin a long era of sound and profitable operation...
...week in Chicago, Prize Fighter Joe Louis lived up to this dubious compliment. In the presence of 45,000 spectators in Comiskey Park his hands knocked out James J. Braddock in the eighth round of their bout for the heavyweight championship of the world. Major results of Louis' handiwork were two: it made him the first colored man to hold the championship since crafty Jack Johnson allowed himself to be knocked out by Jess Willard in 1915, and it started a new regime in pugilistic finance, by which shrewd, bald-headed Michael Jacobs succeeded Madison Square Garden Corp...
...Long ago the sand sculptors learned to mix one part of cement with three or four parts of beach, and their creations will withstand two or three years of hail or high water. But last week another force threatened to wipe out permanently much of the itinerant artists' handiwork and a livelihood which, although sand sculpturing has remained the piece de resistance and principal attraction, has lately come from the more lucrative practice of sketching board-walkers who pause to gawp at the modeling. Last week's threat came from the City Hall where Mayor Charles D. White...
...school which he designed and built himself, Professor Gropius inaugurated a new curriculum that provided for students familiarizing themselves with the actual handiwork of construction. This new course of study, he said, enabled him to be asked to lecture here...
...right hand leading ("The left is lazy," explains M. Martin), the lively little duet twinkled through an intricate tango. Then the enterprising right fingers slipped into a pair of wee leather boots, flew into a Russian Kozatzki. After that; the astonishing finger-feet stepped into little silver slippers, the handiwork...