Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously such facial gymnastics give maximum carrying power to the Premier's expressions, permit what he is saying with his face to be seen by people too far away to hear him. Significant shots: 1) the Dictator's completely self-effacing wife standing gracious and well dressed beside Il Duce, who seems genuinely unaware of her existence, at the marriage of their daughter Edda to Count Ciano; 2) Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, paying no visible attention as Premier Mussolini reads to him parts of the Lateran Treaty, and having to be energetically roused and instructed by a young Catholic...
...December President Hoover had recommended a major revision of veterans laws to reduce non-military disability allowances. Congress ignored his proposal. The independent offices appropriation bill carried the maximum legal amounts for ex-soldiery. Even before he left the White House President Hoover had explained his pocket veto of that measure: "The appropriation bills passed by the Congress, when taking into account mere postponements to later deficiency bills, show that the total appropriations were approximately $161,000,000 above my recommendations. Of this increase $130,900,000 is in the independent offices bill. I am not signing this bill...
Packing girls, aged 13, in a food factory receive 1? for filling a dozen jars, putting them in-wooden boxes, lugging the boxes to the next department. Maximum daily wage...
...Lang-True Animal Stories. Advertising Junket, this program lately completed a contest in which the maximum number of three-letter words was to be formed from "Junket Works Magic With Milk." Prizes: Scotch terrier or $50, wire-haired terrier or $35, angora kitten or $25, white canary or $10, pair of guppies (fish), 50 white china elephants. An animal roars at the beginning of the program. There is a secret society, with pin, called the H. A. H. (Happy Animal Helpers...
...enter directly into business, or it must exercise a very minute and comprehensive authority over corporations which have hitherto grossly abused their great power. But whatever solution is put into effect, the era of incompetent and irresponsible banking, banking that exists in so many cases for the maximum of private gain and the minimum of public good must be forcibly brought to a close...