Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Money expended on any construction project is 85% labor when traced through to the source of the materials. The Department of Labor says each man on contract construction under the commendable Ickes' WPA program meant 3½ men working. Construction, the slowest of the great industries to recover, is operating on less than 50% of normal volume. If it were on a normal volume basis, it could employ 2,500,000 more men than it is now using. This, singularly, is the number now on "relief...
...winced the Garter King of Arms, when confronted by newshawks. "I recollect that the Duke [when King] did say something to the effect that it was his mother's wish that the funeral should be concluded in a week to avoid prolonged distress to the Royal Family. ... I meant no sort of disrespect to the Duke of Windsor...
Senator Vandenberg, with his sly kewpie smile, explained why and how he drafted a new one: i) It seemed absurd, with the country at large in favor of abolishing child labor, that an amendment could not be written which "would say what we meant without saying what we didn't mean." 2) One of the President's chief arguments for the bill to enlarge the Supreme Court was that so simple a reform as the abolition of child labor could not be accomplished via a Constitutional amendment even in 13 years. Senator Vandenberg spent two months getting...
...Popular Front statesman before dawn to try to form a Cabinet, picking for this effort a Radical Socialist who had twice before been Premier, Camille Chautemps. Names notwithstanding, the Radical Socialists are more conservative than the Socialists in France, and thus the selection of Middle-of-the-Roader Chautemps meant a shift toward the Centre and away from the Communists. To form a Cabinet on this basis was ticklish work this week. Premier-Designate Chautemps, who had been Minister of State under Premier Blum, not only asked Deputy Blum to become Minister of State in his attempted Cabinet but observed...
Last week at the Oakland Hills Country Club in Birmingham, Mich., Golfer Guldahl had another short putt on the 18th green of his last round in the Open. This time he sank it. This time it meant not only winning the championship but doing it by two strokes, 281 to Sam Snead's 283, and breaking by a stroke the record Open score set by Tony Manero last year...