Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advisory committee which loaned $4,000,000 to the Union Indemnity group of insurance companies not long before they crashed early in 1933. That stirred New York's hulking Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr. to one of his typically brash outbursts, this time on Banker Hecht and a "rotten mess." Suspicious of any & all banks at the time, depositors outside New Orleans began to withdraw deposits. Banker Hecht soon had a first-class run on his hands, which was not stopped until he called in Huey Pierce Long...
...give the myth a wider circulation. Dickens' sideline was social sympathy; Author Priestley's English Journey, a lengthy digression into the economic back streets of his country, shows the same individualist concern over poverty and ugliness, the same little-English confidence that character will muddle through the worst economic mess...
...cheery sunrise down No Man's Land; two bedraggled troopers sneaking past a break in the parapet on all fours, their mess kit handles between their teeth (Mess Time, Pilkem...
...Navy funds somewhere else if not to Hawaii. Only extra expense caused by the Presidential party is for food. That is defrayed by the President, out of his own pocket, at $1.50 a day for each member of his party, the price paid by every officer in the wardroom mess. The $25,000 White House travel fund will come into use when the President lands at Portland, starts back across the continent to Washington by special train...
...been faced by treachery in his own ranks but he smoothes things over by the cowardly method of compromise. How much more admirable was the method of Adolf Hitler! Der Führer has crushed the rebels and it is our duty to tell the Austrian people what a mess he has cleaned...