Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressmen were swamped with red-hot pleas. Governors wailed to the President that their States would never be able to carry the unemployment load if the Federal Government stepped out from under...
Ecuador. At Callao, Peru, Secretary Hull and party boarded the sleek, sumptuous Grace Liner Santa Barbara. So did the Pan-American delegations of Nicaragua, Haiti. Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala. Off La Libertad, Ecuador the Santa Barbara with her load of diplomacy stopped briefly, but not long enough for Secretary Hull to pay even a flying visit to the Capital. However, a boatload of welcoming Ecuadorian officials scrambled aboard, were treated to food & oratory at Secretary Hull's expense...
...question the wiseness of professors in general. He even lays these particular pedagogues open to the now questionable charge of having believed in President Hoover. The only word of praise that Mr. Dyer has for the book is that it "sounds like New England." One is load to believe that Dyer favors the N.R.A. The index expurgatorius follows...
...gusto dismissed Pittsburgh's NRAdministrator, John S. Fisher. Mr. Fisher was no mere local booster who had climbed on the Recovery bandwagon, but once (1927-30) Pennsylvania's Republican Governor. He had made a speech in which he criticized NRA for making "no provisions for financing the load of rising costs which it necessarily placed on producer and consumer." When General Johnson heard this he dispatched a curt six-line letter demanding Mr. Fisher's resignation. To reporters, the General snapped: "Sabotage...
...Under present conditions, the peak load on the waiters comes between 8.30 and 9 o'clock, and student waiters are often hurried in getting away for 9 o'clock classes. Under the proposed advancement of the breakfast hour, the peak load would continue past 9 o'clock, and student waiters would have to give up their 9 o'clock classes or waitresses would have to be substituted for some of them. Since either of these results would be undesirable, we oppose this change...