Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Look at that!" cheerily exclaimed President Roosevelt as he joined the White House birthday party of Granddaughter Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall and beheld her huge six-candled cake. He started the party of youngsters off by helping them pull their colored snappers, adjust their paper caps. C. At a press conference last week President Roosevelt outlined his plans for establishing an "extraordinary budget" to cover emergency expenditures for relief, public works, mortgage refinancing. By this method of bookkeeping which many a critic condemns as concealing the true state of Federal finances, the President would "constructively"' balance the regular Budget...
Since Mid-1929, farm commodity values have dropped 60%. whereas nonagricultural prices have declined only 32%. The prime purpose of the Roosevelt bill was to pull farm prices up to the same level as other prices. Commodities selected for upping: wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, cattle, sheep, rice, tobacco and milk and its products. Picked as a standard to which agricultural prices were to rise to restore their parity with industry was the average pre-War level of 1909-14. Five bushels of wheat then bought a good pair of shoes which today cost nearer twelve. Secretary...
...Yeah comedy-presumably to emphasize the jollity of such scenes as the one in which Robert Armstrong, acting from confused jealousy when he learns of the girl's relations with Gilbert, tricks Gilbert into falling from a high girder in an unfinished building, then tries to pull him up with the sleeve of a sweater which finally gives...
...store. Son-in-law Curtis Dall applied for membership on the Chicago Board of Trade. Groton School again saw Sons Franklin and John with many a tall tale to tell of the Inaugural. Son Elliott chucked his New York advertising job because too many clients counted on his "Washington pull." At his first press conference the President kissed Elliott good-by as he started to motor to Arizona and look for a rancher's job. Son James who got a new position with Travelers Insurance Co. stayed on temporarily at the White House. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt held...
...when Baldwin shot from his left wing, after the Crimson had kept the puck in Yale territory for a few minutes. Snyder saved, but the rubber bounded back to the waiting Saltonstall, who had nothing in the way of a score. The time was 2.15. Yale's endeavors to pull the game out of the fire were useless, and the laurels went to Harvard...