Word: make
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Thomas Cahill, 36, another Corcoran familiar. Prosecutor Cahill is already famed for standing up to impressive John William Davis, the Democrats' 1924 nominee for President, in the Levy & Hahn proceedings. In Chicago, U. S. Attorney Mike Igoe had to be elevated to the district bench to make way for sharpshooting, young (36) William J. Campbell. Like...
...rural areas, the maximum in cities from $35 to $50.70, meantime readjusting rates elsewhere to hike the national average from $53 to $55.50. Even this beneficence had a shock effect on the South where WPA pay already was sufficiently above private pay (for farm hands, domestics, etc.) to make labor hard to please...
...resettled relief families still living in the Matanuska Valley project (200 families started out) now make a comfortable living, will do well. Some have made as much as $6,000 each per year...
...Russia, and her raw materials, and Germany, and her industries, make an economic combination...
...rate, if either Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler-who have led their countrymen to believe that the other is the devil unchained (but not so deliberately recently)-needed any sales points to make the deal palatable at home, they were available. General belief was that they would scarcely take the trouble. They did not even bother to reveal who had undertaken the preliminaries to the greatest and quietest diplomatic about-face in modern European history...