Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some observers, however, believed that the President genuinely meant to econo mize, was attempting it by a piece of characteristic Rooseveltian strategy. If he had cut his Relief figure below $1,500,000,000, Congressional spenders would have gobbled up the difference for pet projects not under direct White House control. Therefore, instead of making a forthright effort to balance the Budget by reduced appropriation or increased taxes, the President was deliberately setting up a deficit in order to scare Congressmen out of further spending. When Congress had adjourned he could set about economy by spending less than...
...goal did not count. A goal for the Rangers would have tied the score, 1-all, in the second period of the deciding game of the final series for the Stanley Cup, hockey's world championship. Referee Ion's decision, accepted after a five-minute altercation, meant instead that the Rangers had to take increasingly dangerous risks to tie the score. While they tried to do so, Detroit had and took opportunities to score twice more, once in the second period, again in the third, to clinch the game (3-to-0) and series...
...Vanderlip: "[We have made] an exhaustive and careful investigation of a new plan for automobile and truck production and sales. ... We propose to have the company go ahead with this plan." Automotive Daily News said that the plan provided for production of 40,000 vehicles per year,* which obviously meant a return to the passenger car field, but Mr. Vanderlip said later he was not so sure of this. Also denied was any tie-up with Auburn Automobile Co., in which his father has substantial interests through Cord Corp...
...weeks ago, however, the British Theatre was shaken by news that Strip-Tease Dancer Diane Raye had arrived from Manhattan to do her act at the London Palladium. Though the average Briton did not know what "striptease" meant, he knew it was a Broadway specialty, suspected that therefore it was probably indecent. So much hubbub foamed up in London's press that the staid Palladium canceled the act and the more racy Victoria Palace grabbed...
Eleanor was none too enthusiastic about Boston as a training place for those aquaticly minded. "The only time I got a chance to use the Harvard pool, it would have meant bumping into professors' wives and children all the time." She found the hours for feminine natators at the Y.M.C.A. also "extremely inconvenient...