Word: regular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grease the way in Congress for the launching of a huge naval program the President shrewdly proposed to hand the Army some small change at the same time-$17,000,000 besides its regular appropriation. This would be used for ammunition, antiaircraft equipment, tools and dies for future conversion of industrial plants to munitions manufacture and for building up the enlisted reserve...
Michigan's Senator Vandenberg thought the President should disclose "the justifying facts, if any, for the biggest regular budget for arms in our history." Congressman Maury Maverick, the liberal Texan, declared: "We must also decide what national defense is-whether it means battleships 600 miles up the Yangtze River in China or no farther than Hawaii." California's Senator Johnson wanted to know what the "foreign policy of this Government is. I don't know what it is. You don't know what...
Roswell Magill's regular occupation is teaching. After a year's apprenticeship in a Chicago law firm, he took on an instructorship at the University of Chicago, and after a brief interlude as a Government revenue attorney moved to Columbia in 1924. A pioneer investigator of Federal taxation and the author of several standard textbooks, he is a recognized authority on how to avoid taxes as well as how to levy them. Yet with all Roswell Magill's professorial background Congressmen like and trust him. Once when he appeared before a committee the Congressmen were so impressed...
...Confessions was trying to collect evidence that True Story has become too enthusiastic about what ordinarily passes as innocent trade practice. Mr. Macfadden's True Story has 265 boy sales organizers who double as field representatives to see that the magazine is properly displayed on newsstands. On its regular force True Confessions employs only about a dozen field representatives, having no boy sales organization. In a long message to wholesalers last week, True Confessions complained that "organizers have been covering up copies of True Confessions on the newsstands . . . and have . . . thrown them in the dealers' return...
President and Mrs. Conant will be out of town on Sunday, January 30, and will therefore be unable to hold the regular student tea. However, they will be at home to members of the faculty and their wives on Sunday, February...