Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money from you and even you don't get it all back. All you need to do is look at these big buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue to realize that. We take your shirt and give you a little piece of the shirttail. Then you go back home waving it and shouting 'Look what Uncle Sam gave...
...Lecturing at Harvard, Park Commissioner Robert Moses of New York City said: "In practice, every American knows that we cannot remain absolutely aloof from another world conflict... we shall be lucky if this aid can be confined to money, materials and munitions as distinguished from...
When Mahan's Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 appeared in 1890, British imperialists rated it an indispensable aid in wangling money from Parliament. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who was just beginning to swell, telegraphed to Journalist Poultney Bigelow: "I am just now not reading but devouring Captain Mahan's book. ... It is on board all my ships...
Thus was an indelible Red label pasted on the chief pressure group for bigger WPA appropriations. It immediately put WPAdministrator Francis ("Pink") Harrington on the hottest spot he has been on since he succeeded Harry Hopkins. There was talk in the committee of proposing that no WPA money be paid to any Alliance members unless Colonel Harrington terminates his friendly relations with Alliance leaders. Colonel Harrington coolly retorted that he had noted nothing subversive about the Alliance. "I see no objection," said he, "to having a spokesman for workers discuss wages, hours and working conditions with their superiors...
...Graf Zeppelin, of reconstruction, of speculation, of U. S. financial dominance unaccompanied by an increase of U. S. political responsibility, were also years that saw the production of the world's goods reach new heights. They were the years when Coolidge said of war debts, "They hired the money," when Charles Dawes was Coolidge's vicegerent in Europe, wearing laurels won with the Dawes Plan...