Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autograph seeker interrupted the ex-champion's thoughts and when he returned it was to dwell on his pet hate, the newspapermen. "Why, in the old days if any writer had dared hint that a fight was fixed he'd have been run out of town, but today that's the first thing they think about. That's the trouble with these writers...
...Wall Street man. Undersecretary of the Treasury Dean Gooderham Acheson, differing with the President on financial policies, departed without even a perfunctory expression of Presidential regret. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Hewes fell into disfavor with Secretary Morgenthau, was stripped of most of his duties, took the hint and resigned. Unable to tolerate the New Deal's lavish spending policy any longer, Budget Director Lewis Douglas finally retired. Last week two more names were added to the Treasury's casualty list and Franklin Roosevelt scrawled his signature to two more informal farewell notes...
...such thoughts coursed through Franklin Roosevelt's busy brain, they were secret. Only two concrete hints reached the Press last week. One came from CCC Director Fechner. He admitted that the Administration plans to cut the CCC enrollment from 460,000 to 300,000 to reduce the number of CCCamps from 2,248 to 1,456. The other hint came from President Roosevelt himself. A newshawk asked at a Press conference whether he planned to allocate $3,000,000 for work on the Florida Ship Canal. Funds for such large projects, said the President, would be included...
Taking the hint, the Press jumped to the conclusion that big Federal works, such as the Florida Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy Dam. would be separated from Relief projects, brought inside the regular budget. Right or wrong in its guess, the Press was brought up short on a matter of terminology. To a newshawk who asked if the "double-budget system" would be continued, the budget-burdened President gave an irate answer: There never had been any double budget. Regular and Relief expenditures were kept separate for the same reason that the War and Navy Departments were kept separate...
...Cooper, being the constant gadfly that she was, dared him to try. Cooper, we are told, never refused a challenge. The result was "Precaution." It's a pity that the author didn't take the title as a hint. The work has proved to be one of the worst novels in history...