Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After such a boner TIME'S Foreign News Editor does not deserve it, but next time he goes to Europe let him travel on the Empress of Britain and be informed...
Last week the Tribune, pawing an A. P. regional report for dirt on the New Deal, let out a roar. Its 857,963 readers were informed that, although one Edward M. Dieter had been listed as postmaster for Woodstock, Ill. (pop. 5,471), no one in Woodstock or Washington had ever heard of Mr. Dieter. After assuring itself in Washington that the Woodstock appointment had gone as scheduled to William W. Desmond, the Tribune exulted: WOODSTOCK GETS POSTMASTER, BUT WHO'S DIETER...
...study of contemporary work by U. S. designers and artists. The Museum lived up to this so consistently that in 1925, when Dana was in Italy and a rich Newark lady sent him $10.000 with which to acquire old Italian things, he saved the money and persuaded her to let him spend it on American paintings. The next year the Museum moved into a $750,000 building given by Department Storeman Louis Bamberger, held a long remembered exhibition of New Jersey leather products and processes...
...come and get their $267,000 on deposit. To its depositors, the bank promised full payment, to its stockholders, the $10,000 capital they put up 33 years ago to found the bank, plus $21,000 surplus and undivided profits, $11,000 in real estate. Yawning, the local farmers let their money be, figuring that they would take their 2½% interest as long as possible...
...Knoxville, Tenn., Revenuer Sam McKinney, after raiding nine Cocke County stills, received a tearful letter: "In rades made last two weeks you got our forth licker, one forth our pots and barls. So plees let us alone awhile til we get good start again. We want work. Wer ashamd to beg. Wer afrade to steel. We can't starve. So plees let Cocke and Cosby rest 10 days til we get started again...