Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...road program this year provided jobs for 3,000 additional Chandler workers. Chandler supporters are this month distributing Old Age Benefit payments by hand instead of mail. To sellers of liquor and beer Happy has given a 40-day extension of their licenses, just beyond primary day. If a lot of free drinks are not served on his behalf it will be a great shame...
...Said Harry Hopkins last week of his relief clients: "These fellows are not a lot of robots. They are 3,000,000 American citizens and they all have political views. And, incidentally, I think I know pretty much what their views are. At least 90% of them would vote for President Roosevelt if he were up for re-election...
...canal is a farm. We carry it on our books at $4,000. Now if they will loan me 8,000 I will gladly "sell" it to the PWA and they can put a lot of men to work on it. By draining the alkali spot it can be made into a beautiful park or what...
...honesty, increasingly active in the political councils of the "Kitchen Cabinet" (Messrs. Corcoran, James Roosevelt, Joe Keenan et al.), and increasingly convinced of his right to play a part in politics, Harry Hopkins replies to such attacks: "They can call names just so often. I know a lot of adjectives my self and I am going to start in pretty soon...
Last week some 100 Fraternity members moved out to Peace Haven to stay. Mr. Schafer (called by his disciples the Messenger) went back to Manhattan to continue his lectures. Said he comfortably to the press, "People think we're a lot of nuts...