Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sergeant Lyons: I don't know. He may be drawing his handkerchief...
Repeatedly Harry Hopkins has publicly stated that WPA or some kindred bureau would become a permanent agency to take over all of the Government public works construction. To men who know construction, that possibility is nauseating. To the taxpayers of the country, it should be a warning of eventual national financial collapse. Only to the politicians is such a statement ''duck soup." If the men on WPA had been turned loose making automobiles, mining coal, or publishing news periodicals, the storm of protest would have been terrific, and the effort ended. Only in construction, the most disintegrated...
...school which gave him his start, or the superintendent who led him into the paths of righteousness (sometimes with a veritable board of education, two inches wide), or the teachers who taught him tactile reading and writing in line letters and New York point. Without letting the world know, he has been for many years the chief advisor for the Nebraska School for the Blind, its chief benefactor. He has helped me, the chief executive, with counsel. He has visited the school often. And he has provided funds in many, many ways. While school is in session every month there...
These are some of the things the Associated General Contractors of America were fighting for-not "pork." These are some of the things the "earmarkers" in Congress understood and had courage enough to vote for. These are some of the things your Washington correspondent should know before he makes a rather slurring remark about "pork." W. A. KLINGER...
...Next morning he was in Hyde Park to inspect a new firebreak in his woods, letting newshawks know that his 560-acre tract adjoining his mother's estate is not a gentleman farmer's operation run at a loss which he can deduct on his income tax return (as suggested by his district's Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish), but a timber operation (cordwood, fence posts, Christmas trees) on which he should realize a small profit. With him on this weekend was Author Emil Ludwig, biographer of the great, whose next subject is Franklin Roosevelt...