Word: recession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said he: "The tenderest parent sometimes grows tired of the eager eyes and hungry brain of his child. The poor little traveler is bewildered by the strange world in which he suddenly finds himself. . . . For absolute filth, go and listen to the talks of the boys and girls during recess in our schools. Some of these little ones belong to refined Christian families. Their parents would shrink in horror at the thought of unveiling the sacred mysteries of sex and birth to their innocent minds...
...session for six months prior to fiscal New Year's day, it had not succeeded in passing all the regular appropriation bills so that departments would have money to spend beginning July 1. With the War and Interior Departments supply bills still unpassed, the Senate quietly took a recess on fiscal New Year's eve. Result: on New Year's morning a "continuing resolution," allowing those Departments to continue spending for two weeks at the same rate as last year, was hurriedly adopted. Then in their own good time Senate and House went about the business...
...born. Father Coryell built a play pen in his office and took Junior to work. Every two hours he carried him home for feeding and a change. When Junior started to school, Father Coryell moved his office ten blocks to be nearby so Junior could drop in at recess and lunch periods. When Junior graduated from high school he was made a full partner in the business and given Checkbook No. 3 against the Coryell family account. Father Coryell and he then took a correspondence school course in law together...
...Grenfell on Labrador--in living room of Union at 8:15. Arrangements for Recess--Christmas vacation to extend from December 23 to January 2, inclusive...
Fortnight ago the Delaware General Assembly stopped the clock and stayed in session all night to finish up its year's work. Only break in a boisterous evening, typical of the closing hours of many a State Legislature, was a recess taken at 4 a.m. so that members could troop down through the deserted streets of Delaware's tiny capital (Dover) to see one of their number off on a late train to Manhattan. Next morning everyone slept late, went home happy that the session was over...