Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to obtain an idea of the musical interests of the members of the Choir and Glee Club, a questionnaire has been distributed amongst the members of these organizations, asking what music courses they are taking, what instruments they play, and with what degree of facility they play them, and if they have pianos, radios or phonographs in their rooms. Other questions ask what choral pieces they have benefited by and which pieces they have enjoyed the most...
...Inland Waterways Corp. would be subject to indictment for issuing deceptive reports if it were a private concern. It practically amounts to using the mails to obtain money under false pretenses. The barge line fails to figure in its cost such items as attorney's fees, printing, franking, depreciation and the expense of operating the dams and locks it uses. If people knew the facts, they'd demand prosecution. I don't know how much bookkeeping they teach at West Point but they teach obeying orders. If General Ashburn is told to make the lines...
...provision for unemployed persons should not only afford material assistance but should also be designed to maintain their morale and fitness to resume work when opportunities can be found. My government intend to bring forward measures dealing comprehensively with unemployment insurance and with the treatment of those unable to obtain work, and the considerations I have mentioned will be borne in mind in framing their proposals...
...clearer that the President, though he had commissioned Fascist Hitler to try to form a Cabinet with a parliamentary majority, was not anxious that he should succeed. Herr Hitler drew from Old Paul what amounted to a stipulation that the President would not appoint him Chancellor unless he could obtain a "safe majority" in the Reichstag for a Cabinet pledged to continue all the policies of the hated von Papen "Cabinet of Monocles...
...have Christmas present blues, The Harvard Crimson has been able to obtain wholesale prices on Christmas fruit cakes. They are packed in colorful Christmas tins which are enclosed in attractive packages all ready to mail. Although we have no special interest in your buying these cakes, we suggest your Aunt Minnie may be a little tired of receiving handkerchiefs regularly every Christmas. Here is something new and darn good...