Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Watchdogs. In his budget message President Roosevelt took pains to protect the Administration against charges of extravagance. Comptroller General McCarl has not had authority to check and countercheck the expenditure of Federal emergency appropriations, nor has Budget Director Douglas had power to plan their spending. The President announced in his message that on that day he was giving to Watchdogs McCarl & Douglas the power to supervise emergency as well as ordinary expenditures. But on protest of PWAdministrator Ickes that the growls of "unsympathetic" Mr. Douglas would impede allocations, the President withdrew...
...protect their tender fundaments, Monte Carlo croupiers sit on soft leather doughnuts, as experience has shown that this shape of cushion is best for the work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...
...recently been criticizing the N. R. A. in behalf of the consumer's interest. They are wrong, I believe, in claiming that the Recovery Program will result in dangerous price-fixing and restriction of output. There may be price-fixing, but it will only go so far as to protect labor; further price fixing will not be permitted by the Government. Regulation of output, I think, is in part necessary...
...motionless in full regalia with faces reverently blank seemed a divine unison. In an adjoining room of the Pavilion stoically waited His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito with the traditional weapons. Always before he had had to give the newborn a dagger, the birthright of every Japanese girl to protect her purity. Four daggers had he thus given to four daughters. This time would His Majesty at last be able to give a sword? At exactly 6:39 a. m. came the first mewing cry. Tokyo trembled as the Imperial siren shrieked once (feminine), then went wild as a second...
...York has not seen a real Russian ballet since Diaghilev and the great Nijinsky went back to Europe 16 years ago. It was, therefore, rare and oldtime glamour that filled St. James Theatre one night last week for the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. Backstage had all been carpeted to protect the ballerinas' feet. Samovars and champagne pails were in the dressing-rooms. Out front were people who had paid up to $100 for their seats. There were cheers and flowers for every curtain call. At a champagne supper afterwards old Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath was so enthusiastic that...