Word: parceled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong Objector. Great Britain, which was neither very worried nor very hopeful about Bretton Woods, was just going to do her damnedest to make Bretton Woods and its related arrangements work well for Britain. Bretton Woods was part & parcel of the larger deal with the U.S. whereby Britain got a loan she badly needed, and in return promised to relax the exchange controls and imperial preferences which had bolstered her trade within the sterling area. British objections were aimed at two features of the Bretton Woods plan...
...some 3,000,000 veterans will need homes, CPA is prepared to set up a regional quota system to parcel out priorities. But few veterans, or anyone else, thought that such priorities would solve the housing shortage. Not many veterans can afford a $10,000 house; the great need is for houses at $6,000 and under...
...Shakespeare and the Bible. "Part and parcel of a lawyer's expression of his ideas and arguments. . . . Judicial opinions frequently contain allusions . . . which a lawyer ought to grasp readily, like 'Naboth's vineyard' and 'the pound of flesh...
Liberal spending, if necessary to create federally financed jobs, had been part & parcel of the original Murray-Wagner proposal; an unbalanced budget had been the financial keystone of Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's administrations. Federal outgo and income had not matched since June 1930, just after the beginning of the last great depression, and the national debt now stood at $26.2 billion. But when the Taft amendment was put before the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley spoke only a few mild-mannered words of protest. Then Georgia's economy-minded George rose to thunder...
Father in Cincinnati. Cincinnati is one of the U.S. cities which has reported no interest in Trollope-perhaps because Trollope's parents are part & parcel of Cincinnati history. To the young Midwest metropolis, in 1828, went eccentric Frances Trollope who was later followed by her equally eccentric lawyer husband, Thomas, (they left their 13-year-old son, Anthony, back in England with his brothers and sisters...