Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city, they visited the Navy yards, rubbered at beauty queens, went to a ball. At a luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton. Referring to a "misunderstanding between me and my boss" (by whom he meant President Roosevelt) he said: "I sometimes do not agree with my wife. You can understand. . . . But that does not take away my love and affection for this lady...
...regard to your editorial of April 23 on spring sports trips, it appears to me that you have unfairly condemned the baseball and lacrosse trips by including them, perhaps unwittingly, in a condemnation properly meant only for the tennis trip...
...dried fruits, some needed for home consumption, were exported. In one area His Imperial Majesty decreed that cotton should be grown instead of wheat. Drought ensued, the cotton crop failed, and to make matters worse the world's cotton market just then fell. To the Iranian masses this meant extreme privation, to foreign visitors scenes in Iran's villages were shocking...
...drive on what President Roosevelt considers the monopolistic practices of the cement industry. The industry has long maintained that local monopolies can be avoided only by a cooperative, nationwide, delivered-price system including both production cost and delivery cost as determined from a number of basing points. This meant that when the Government asked for cement bids, the figures were almost always identical even to the fourth decimal point. Calling this practice price collusion at the expense of the consumer. Franklin Roosevelt tried to halt it with NRA, through the Attorney General's office, and finally through the Federal...
...when 24 brokers got together under a buttonwood tree at what is now 68 Wall Street, a "seat" meant a seat in the trading hall. But as the Exchange expanded, seats became valuable less as certificates of participation in the tangible assets of the Exchange than as indications of the earning power and condition of the market. Seats were first offered for sale in 1868 when membership stood at 500. During the '70s they sold at about $5,000. By 1929 membership was up to the present 1,375, price of a seat reached...