Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because the organization which for 15 years I sweated for, swore by, and took pride in, turned into a political football. Will go anywhere. Want a chance to give unlimitedly of work and loyalty. Held a U. S. Civil Service rating as construction supervisor for several years but apparently Mr. Farley misplaced my address...
...hammer home the irreducibility of big Government expenditures, the President handed on to Congress a report of the Social Security Board. Mr. Roosevelt warmly approved recommendations that old-age insurance payments be started in 1940 instead of 1942, that coverage be extended to some 16,000,000 uninsured workers. Though this liberalization of benefits would inevitably siphon off some of the eventual $47,000,000,000 reserve, as the Board intended it should, the President avoided direct mention of the reserve or of the Board's advice to stop hiking payroll taxes after...
About Richard II Mr. Shipton says: "Even domestic life then had its adventures, for tradition says that a discontented slave girl once placed gunpowder beneath the massive family bed and blew it and the Colonel through the roof. When the bed came to rest, right side up and some distance from the house, the Colonel popped out, remarking, 'I know who did that...
...chain does not stop where Mr. Shipton has left off, however, for the pages of the directory are now graced with the name of Leverett IV, a member of the Class of 1939. His family have set a precedent which he will have to maintain...
...Saltonstalls," Mr. Shipton concludes, "have never sought great wealth. . . . Content with a comfortable fortune, they saw no virtue in leisure, but labored at the tasks they chose...