Word: make
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting us any place. What do you think about turning this relief business around by voting a few billions and turn it over to business and industry (such as is left) and say: Here she is, boys; get busy and see what kind of job you can do making rugged individualists of yourself. Get real rugged! All New Deal rules are out of the window! I don't care what you do so long as you are honest about it and make a lot of jobs, but you've got to make jobs real quick and hire...
Reporters had already heard about its nature. The State Department had disclosed that it expressed "the earnest hope that nothing may occur to injure the peaceful relations of Finland and Russia," and that U. S. action had been taken independently of that of any other country. If reporters could make no bang-up story of that, it was just because, when diplomats really go into action, bang-up stories are usually misleading...
Generalissimo Pittman quietly held his fire for the moment the battle reached the amendment trenches. Victory was his-if he would make a certain sacrifice...
...What you are doing is the old camouflage, Frankensteen, and you know it. . . .Now you want a new contract and we are willing to negotiate with you. So bring in your negotiating committee and your demands and let's get down to business. We are ready again to make a fair contract but not to let you run our plants...
...women. Snuff dippers don't talk much. . . so they do considerably more thinking. Smoke is the ghost of tobacco. Chewing tobacco is its body, but snuff is the soul of nicotine . . . the mark of men with hair on their chests and women who raise breast-fed babies that make the nation's statesmen and soldiers...