Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve years I worked for one concern in New York City as assistant to the District Sales Manager, having general office supervision, dictating much of the correspondence, and was trained as a sales representative handling sales by mail and telephone. Four years ago this concern dispensed with District Managers and the New York office closed. Since then I have tried continuously to reestablish myself in the same field, and in others. Briefly, in these efforts I tried all the recognized methods of obtaining employment -to no avail...
...chief threat of war, Mr. Kennedy was reported as saying that in order to appease Adolf Hitler the British would even allow him to put a base in Canada (which Franklin Roosevelt swears to defend). This Mr. Kennedy quickly denied. A story he did not deny was that much of his information came from Hero Charles Lindbergh (TIME...
Frank Murphy's sister says that he "looks more like Jesus Christ every day." Before the committee he looked like a man who, his mind on highest things, has suffered and forgiven much. He told how, having been asked by Flint authorities to back up the court order, "I did not ignore that writ. ... On the contrary, I warned the union representatives that I would enforce it." He merely delayed enforcement over the week-end (the writ was issued on a Friday) because he believed a negotiated settlement was imminent. National Guardsmen stood by, and sure enough a settlement...
...another who can pay for the privilege of looking out on some of the city's few trees. But the west side of the park, which has a similar view, is no slum. It, too, has fine buildings in which the annual rent of an apartment is as much as the cost of building a modest home. Such a building is the San Remo, whose services employes struck three months...
...private) is no greater than in 1929: "As you know, our national income is only 60 billion dollars, whereas for 1929 it was 80 billion dollars. The income out of which these debts must be paid has shrunken 20 billion dollars. . . . Our burden is the same. Our strength is much less...