Word: public
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Mr. Morgenthau said he was not worrying about was the U. S. public debt, still climbing to alltime highs, now teetering at more than $41,168,000,000. Another thing he was presumably not worrying about was the U. S. law which flatly forbids the public debt to go over $45,000,000,000. Asked what he would do if & when the 1940 fiscal tide lapped the public debt up around King Canute Congress' shoes, he said: "I'm not going to draw checks one penny over the regular authority...
...Busch brewery, forcing abandonment of plans to build additional aging and fermenting plants, etc., to cost from $750,000 to $2,000,000. The dispute, said an Arnold assistant, Roscoe Steffen, "could be settled in an hour if the leadership of the union [carpenters] had the interests of the public and the welfare of labor at heart...
...with society in Miami, he had a ringside seat at the big fights. His levy fell on millions-every man paid through his liquor, entertainment, food, clothing. The take of his racket organization was estimated at $30,000,000 a year. He was a national sensation; he gave the public shivers of delight...
...Public Enemy...
...charge of carrying concealed weapons. After his release a Chicago newspaper man, Jake Lingle, was shot. He was suspected of being "in the racket," said to have been Capone's friend. Whatever he was, his murder was one too many. There was a sudden bellow of public indignation. In Chicago Colonel Robert Isham Randolph and his Secret Six Committee, Investigator Pat Roche, many another, took up the crusade for decency. Capone was near...