Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt, the Speaker's death meant more than the loss of a public servant. It meant the loss of the servant of the New Deal who had the job of keeping a rubber-stamp Congress stamping confirmation on the New Deal's desires. Some questioned the efficiency but none the loyalty of Representative Rainey as stamp handler. These pointed out that he had been given a more stamp-like Congress than any Speaker in recent years and yet he had not prevented the overriding of the President's Veterans veto...
...January AAA sprang its great corn-hog reduction program. The hog part of it provided that every farmer who cut his hog birthrate 25% during 1934 would get a bonus of $5 a head for the other 75%. To many a Midwestern farmer who usually raised 100 hogs this meant $375 of wel- come Government cash if he would raise only 75 hogs. That was what Secretary Wallace had in mind...
...raisers of New England it meant something else. A. F. MacDougal farm agent of Middlesex, the county that is a boundary of Boston, wrote to Washington asking whether Massachusetts farmers could cooperate at $5 a hog-head. "Certainly," came back the answer. Like Paul Revere, County Agent MacDougal spread the news through every Middlesex village and farm. Presently he sent to AAA contracts promising that modest Middlesex would?as a favor and for a price?reduce its production from nearly 100,000 per year to 73,000 hogs...
After consultation the physicians, sympathetic with mid-Ohio's mores, decided that the most kindly thing was to call the affliction a chronic meningoencephalitis. That meant an inflammation of the brain and its membranous envelope. The man's loquacity was the outward manifestation of a brain unhitched and running wild. A course of artificial fever might corral his wandering wits. Again it might...
Last week President Roosevelt had to consider the appointment of a new head to a great Democratic institution. When Carter Glass and the new dealers of 20 years ago created the Federal Reserve System they meant it to be a pillar of sound finance which could not be shaken by the hand of politics or business, which should stand even if the economic sky should fall. What they did not foresee was that, after the economic sky had fallen, a new generation of New Dealers would want not a pillar of stone but a handy wand with which to reconstruct...