Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office to a successor, might be pardoned a sentence or two in retrospect. He began: "From 1921 to 1930 it has been my privilege to have served . . . under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, during a most important period in the industrial life of our Nation. . . . Let me briefly mention some of these changes. . . . There has been a gradual decrease in working hours and a betterment of working conditions, with increases in wages . . . with the consequent benefits in the way of better homes, improved standards of living, better schools, civic improvements. . . . But we had another grave industrial problem growing...
...which began July 1, has seen a great change in the financial situation. A surplus of $122,788,966 had been predicted, but its computation did not take into account the effect of the temporary 1% income tax reduction. The President's only mention of the stockmarket crash was backhanded: "Due to the depression it is now estimated that the income of the Government in taxes and postal receipts . . . will probably fall below the anticipation." Besides, "the measures taken to increase employment . . . represent a very material increase in Government expenditures of over $225,000,000. . . . These sums . . . reduce...
Just Imagine (Fox). In 1980, food will be pills; wives will be given out by the State; airplanes will have supplanted automobiles; skyscrapers will be 100 stories high; people will have numbers instead of names; television will make tom-peeping completely, universally possible; any mention of the prim old-fashioned girls of 1930 will be regarded as funny. In 1980, however, musical comedies will still be full of jokes that have been doing service for years; songs will not have improved; heroines will be coy and leading men pompous. These suggestions spectators will absorb from De Sylva, Brown & Henderson...
Asked about the purdali (screen or curtain) concealing his women, a Maharaja who forbade mention of his name said: "The purdah is a mark of gentility. A purdah woman would be discarded at once by her husband if he discovered she had shown her face to a stranger. However there are exceptions. The custom has been broken by the reigning family of Gondal...
Copper producers will cut down production proportionately until the cut amounts to 20,000 tons a month, the margin by which production has exceeded consumption lately. In announcing the agreement, careful mention was made of the facts: 1) that the producers are doing this voluntarily, 2) that the agreement lasts only so long as present economic conditions prevail, 3) that no reduction of stocks of copper on hand is included in the plan. In emphasizing the voluntary and temporary nature of the agreement, it was apparent that the coppermen fear the U. S. Government's attitude. The most recent...