Word: lamentations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind-Mr. Stimson [Secretary of State] who had just come from the Philippines where the country is Wet, Mr. Davis [Secretary of Labor] who in a published book said that the matter of liquor for men who worked in high temperatures ought to be changed. Mr. Lament [Secretary of Commerce] who had been one of the directors of our association, Mr. Mellon [Secretary of the Treasury] who is certainly counted as being against the law, Mr. Brown [Postmaster General] who is wet, and Mr. Adams [Secretary of the Navy] who I think is opposed to the law though of course...
When the Virginia trout season opened last week, President Hoover dropped all official business at the White House, went hurrying away to his Rapidan Camp for his first weekend outing since last October. His guests were Secretaries Lament and Wilbur, Attorney General Mitchell. Mrs. Hoover was away in Philadelphia. The Rapidan party was stag...
...looked ahead to just such an unemployment crisis as befell the country. He tried to cushion its full impact by inducing Big Business to expand their construction activities, to keep as many workers as possible busy. Last week he conferred long with Secretary of Labor Davis, Secretary of Commerce Lament, then spoke out for the first time on the results of his economic endeavors...
Secretary Davis's "guess" of 3,000,000 jobless did not jibe well with White House optimism. Therefore, in a joint statement with Secretary Lament, Mr. Davis revised his figures and "guessed" again that current unemployment did not exceed that of last year at this time by more than...
...first place," began the "Roxy" lament, "I want to tell you that at the beginning I was betrayed. My partner sold me out and left me to carry this awful load. I have received scurrilous letters from you stockholders, and some of the accusations which have been made against me have caused me to cry like a baby. After I was betrayed I stuck only because I felt that most of you people had bought stock because it was my project. I got nothing out of it. I have lost a larger personal fortune in sticking with you. I have...