Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Tennessee Valley Authority, in humbler mood than usual, bobbed up before the House Military Affairs Committee to ask for a few additional small favors. Two years ago Congress gave the New Deal everything it wanted just for the joy of giving. Now Federal agencies like NRA, AAA or TVA are lucky to get grudging crusts on Capitol Hill. Thus it was no great surprise when an ungenerous House Committee last week turned and snarled at TVA's requests for several amendments to its basic act. One amendment would increase TVA's right to issue bonds...
...sober-sided City men of the British Bankers Association were treated one night last week to an outburst of joy from the most formidable Tory of them all-the chill Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain. The man who has given Britain budget surpluses for two years past rose in his place, took off his eyeglasses, looked paternally about him and all but chortled, "We meet in an atmosphere of such happiness and contentment as has not been seen since the War." He proceeded to document the atmosphere with an impressive set of figures...
...machine gun fire of Senora O'Halloran, he took one companion, an oldtime Venezuelan adventurer, and ran firing toward Batista's men. The two fell battered with bullets almost at once. As he died, Tony's face stiffened into a strange choirboy grimace of joy. The soldiers arrested Senora O'Halloran and ten other friends of Tony...
...Joy with Pain shall hang in hock...
...only one quarter have the "On to Alaska with Buchanan" trips stirred complaint. Many of Mr. Buchanan's boys have sisters who pester him for permission to go along. Last week the pestering sisters jumped for joy at news that Mr. Buchanan had given in, would finance a supplementary girls' trip this year. But each girl must run enough errands, bake enough pies, darn enough socks or watch enough babies to pay her third of the expenses...