Word: new
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which sang;* pretty, yellow-headed Patient Ann Smithers, age six, who won the right to sit at the President's table at the Thanksgiving dinner, gnawed a drumstick despite the fact that her baby teeth are falling out; the Georgia Congressional delegation, minus Senator George, who withstood the New Deal's purge. "There was no invitation for me to go," explained Senator George...
Post Office. To astonished Warm Springers, well-pleased at the growth of their village, the President began talking about a new post office, wondered why they had not demanded one. "What have we got?" he asked, "we have got a little over a year left," went on to explain that the next Administration might not provide a post office, and that if Warm Springers demanded hard enough, he might take Jim Farley by the neck "and squeeze a new post office...
...takes place on Capitol Hill, in two scenes: 1) in Mr. Doughton's Ways & Means Committee, where a new tax bill is drafted; 2) in Mr. Harrison's Finance Committee, where it is polished up. Act III takes place at the nearest Internal Revenue Bureau office, with citizens waiting in long lines to pay increased taxes...
Last week came time for the annual first act. But Playwright Roosevelt added a curtain-raiser to Act I, in which he himself appeared in a new role-that of a penny-squeezing pinchfist. Scrimper Roosevelt let it be known he was wearing blue pencils to the stub, slashing $1,000,000,000 of proposed expenditures from the budget he will present in January...
...south to Warm Springs, Ga., for Thanksgiving I. No sooner had he carved the turkey than he gathered the press, told them that he would pass the tax buck to Congress. Those sterling fellows, he intimated, must decide for themselves and the U. S. whether: 1) to pass a new tax bill, which in an election year is similar to harakiri; or 2) simply to go on borrowing money, thereby creating a larger deficit and running the public debt beyond the statutory $45,000,000,000 limit...