Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrats as well as Republicans knew precisely what Speaker Rainey meant by "left at home." The Hundred Day special session of Congress which ended last June was a rubber-stamp affair which made a stirring record for President Roosevelt but added little glory to individual Representatives. The coming session was the one that most voters would have firmly in mind when they march to the polls next November to choose the 74th Congress. Last week each & every Representative was determined to make a Capitol record before summer which, by hook or crook, would return him to his present seat...
...often during the summer and autumn did Attorney General Cummings vehemently declare that he, too, ''meant business" on ending gold hoarding that his threats became a standing joke at the Department of Justice...
...scene was Rigoletto's courtyard, just as it was eight years ago at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. The same girl stood in the wings, calmly waiting her cue. But the cue last week, as it did eight years ago, meant more than just running on stage and singing a duet with the hunchbacked jester...
...first time it meant the opera debut of Marion Talley, so sensationalized by the Press that headline readers were led to believe that this Kansas City telegrapher's daughter must be the world's greatest singer. Three years later when the bubble was thoroughly pricked and Marion Talley was richer by half a million dollars, she suddenly announced that she was through with singing. This time she was attempting a come back with the newborn Chicago Grand Opera (TIME, Jan. 1). And if there were no mounted police to drive off the crowds who could...
...brain truster recently remarked, increased consumer purchasing power does not cause recovery, it is recovery. What the country needs is purchasing power. And that is what the country is getting; that is what is meant by an unbalanced budget, by a steadily rising public debt...