Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the House bill appropriating $100,000,000 more for WPA until June 30, instead of $150.000,000 more as demanded by President Roosevelt. With pain and blushes Majority Leader Barkley abandoned the President's figure in the face of certain defeat, while the President transferred leadership temporarily to Florida's opportunist Senator Pepper. The bill went to the President...
...tough flap of neck muscle. The bone is not replaced, for the muscle-patch is strong enough to protect the patient from injury. The entire operation is performed under a local anesthetic, which deadens only the scalp nerves. Strangely enough, gentle manipulation of a bare brain produces no pain...
...bill to make all State & municipal employes pay income tax to the Federal Government was passed last month by the House. In the Senate, whose members did not relish inflicting pain on their political machines back home, it faced a fight. Government lawyers this week declared that the Supreme Court's new ruling cut both ways, rendered such legislation unnecessary except to relieve State & municipal employes from levies retroactive to 1926. To take advantage of the new ruling, however, most States will have to amend their income tax laws, which specifically exempt Federal salaries. Especially prompt to act should...
...following week Chicago's late Banker James B. Forgan received a note demanding $100,000, on pain of being bombed. Police arrested Reinhold Faust and convicted him of attempted extortion...
Facts have shown that Saint Gandhi's hunger pain is mightier than the sword; native riflemen have not got a fraction of the concessions from Britain that Saint Gandhi's torturing fasts have. But last week's fast was more serious than previous ones because Saint Gandhi's blood pressure was higher than it ever had been before and he was consequently more likely to die than ever before...