Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand for reelection. He said: "Our policy is succeeding. The figures prove it." The figures he produced indicated a net deficit for fiscal 1937 of only $518,000,000, exclusive of work-relief expenditures. They promised rising revenues, falling expenditures, dwindling deficits. While his budget message was being read, the Supreme Court handed down its AAA decision depriving the Government of $547,000,000 annually in processing taxes. Within three weeks Congress authorized a Bonus expenditure of $2,250,000,000 over his unemphatic veto. Franklin Roosevelt therefore faced the probability of a Federal deficit exceeding any other of Depression...
Members of the Royal Commission now looking into the British war industries business again last week gave London the impression that all they knew and all they are likely to find out is what they had read in the papers while U. S. Senators were sending agents snooping through munitioneers' files, forcing witnesses to testify under oath and threatening contempt proceedings (TIME, Sept...
Whereupon I by the fire to read a good part of Professor Whitehead's little essay "Nature and Life", which is mighty good; and thence to Emerson A at 12 to his birthday lecture. He being seventy-five it did much surprise me with what enthusiasm and inspiration he did lecture. But then I know as poets say "philosophers' hearts never wrinkle", especially, methinks, so great...
Whereupon, I back to the Tower to read again Burton's "Kasidah" and much pleased by the thought...
Thence, I out to the Court, and very pretty it be in the snow, and along the River to watch the skating but saw no bit of beauty there; so I back to the Tower to read Kant, and by and by to bed. But Lord! How cold the sheets...