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Word: pocketbook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bear these facts in mind when you vote today. They are practical considerations that are apt to hit you not only in the stomach, but in your pocketbook as well. Your considered vote will do much towards giving the powers-that-be a reasonable idea of what you want and how you want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eat, Drink and be Careful | 2/26/1942 | See Source »

...roster of A.F. of L. craft unions: the Boilermakers, the Carpenters (to work on steel window frames), the Sheet Metal Workers, the Plumbers, the Sawmill Workers, the Machinists. For each new membership he had to fork out an initiation fee, until his pockets bulged with union cards but his pocketbook was flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Welders' Woes | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...your pocketbook is low and you are lost for something to do, step around to 14 Plympton Street tonight after supper about 7:30 o'clock, where fame and fortune await you at the other end of a successful six weeks' competition for the Editorial or Business Boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPETITIONS OPEN TONIGHT | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

...mother), about Jersey City (a dreary spot), about collars (oldfashioned, stiff ones), about grammar (his is bad). Last week, with a loud, red face, he got dramatic about New Jersey's Governor Edison. For the Governor had signed a bill that hit Hague where it hurt most-the pocketbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Lightning by Edison | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...before the assembly: Can free search after truth be continued during the present national emergency? Can the rights of free criticism, acess to any and every book, and student self-government to continued? Is educational opportunity to be extended to everyone, regardless of race, color, creed, or pocketbook? Can the campus be free from intolerance and bigotry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT RIGHTS TO BE EMPHASIZED IN NATIONAL YOUTH MEETING HERE | 3/15/1941 | See Source »

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