Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pension plan went into effect, were $4.96, of which he paid 5? as the Social Security tax. For his pension, he claimed 32% of his total wages since the plan went into effect. This figures out as 17?, or a profit of 12?. Asking for it in a "lump sum," Motorman Ackerman announced: "I'll blow it on my friends...
Portentous was his budget in 1933 cutting Government expenses by $360,000,000, his budget in 1934 proposing to spend $10,000,000,000 for priming the pump, his budget in 1935 asking a lump sum of $4,000,000,000 for him to spend as he wished on Relief, his budget in 1936 when he proclaimed, "Our policy is succeeding...
...disseminating information and supplies in 42 states. U. S. customs officials promptly confiscated the pessaries under the Tariff Act of 1930. That law is the result of a Federal statute which the late gorilla-like prude, Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), rammed down Congress' throat in 1873. These statutes lump contraceptives with abortifacients, smutty writings and lewd picture postcards as "obscene," and forbid anyone to import, mail or ship them across state boundaries...
...Although the Harvard Student Council has contributed in the past a lump sum of $250.00 to the Cambridge Chapter of the Red Cross, we believe that some individuals may wish to join in this membership drive. To facilitate this we are asking all Harvard students who may wish to do so to join at Phillips Brooks House...
...American Bituminous Coal Merchants Association announced lump coal wrapped in Cellophane, to keep cellars clean and enable housewives to put coal into furnaces without soiling their hands...