Word: lots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that can be duplicated wherever labor has organized. Once upon a time, the drawers of water and others who did menial jobs for Harvard were not treated in accordance with the liberal doctrines being taught in Sever and Emerson. There were even law suits, and the result was a lot of bad publicity for the University and a distrust on the part of employees which survived the advent of a more benign policy...
...movies are a refuge for actors with little skill and greedy pocketbooks," Walter Huston said yesterday when interviewed in his backstage dressing room at the 46th Street theatre. "You can make a lot of money in the cinema, it's true, but, compared to the stage...
Apropos of "Grass Roots Press" (TIME, Feb. 20), it is heartening to realize that our Bill of Rights makes possible the stabilizing influence in a great democracy of some 10.000 weekly newspapers. A lot of mighty levelheaded editing comes from the lads whose feet are still on the land...
...then, up in the House came a bill to authorize the building or expansion of twelve naval bases, ten in the Pacific, two in the Atlantic. The lot would cost only $51,500,000 (to be appropriated later), but the forward sweep of the national defense program was momentarily halted by one little phrase: "And Guam, $5,000,000." Chairman Carl Vinson of the Naval Affairs Committee was rudely surprised to find that this was a fighting phrase. Debate over it raged hot and angrily for three days. During the fight, the Congress and the country clarified some of their...
...that the General saves income taxes by living abroad. Joining the attack was Colonel Sir Joseph Nail, Conservative. Defending Sir Reginald was Oliver Stanley, president of the Board of Trade. Sir Reginald flew to London, denied he intended to resign, with military gruffness termed the M.P.s' attack "a lot of idle chatter. More like village gossip. Pity they haven't anything better...