Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grayson), CCC continuation (Director Fechner), tax revision (Senator Pat Harrison, Representative Bob Doughton), budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having waved aside for a whole month matters of second-term policy, gave no sign that he was ready promptly on return to give cues on such major projects as reviving the substance of NRA, or undertaking new adventures in foreign policy...
Most amazing of Mike's activities were his return visits to two branches of National City where he had been successful. In each case he was interviewed by the same employe who had seen him before under a different name. He got four loans in four calls at two banks...
...renewed allegiance to Liberty, the Constitution and the American Way of Life, assure his fellow members of the Republican National Committee that they had fought a good fight, been beaten only by the New Deal's unbeatable Relief funds. Vice President-reject Frank Knox generously conceded that the return of prosperity and Republicans' failure to "popularize" their issues had had something to do with it. The only harsh words at the consolation party came from two uninvited guests...
...these an Australian, Mr. William H. Donald, was in every sense news. Many years ago the health of his wife made it best for her to return to Australia, and in China her increasingly polished rough-diamond husband, as the years rolled on, perhaps killed more ladies (in the complimentary, Edwardian sense of "lady-killing") than any other man in China's swift, hard, cheap, international Shanghai-Peiping set. On being invited some years ago to a party in Peking for an appetizing blonde who had arrived bearing an introduction which she said was signed by the wealthiest...
...restricted to a particular day of the week nor to a particular section of the Opera House, the coupons, coupled with the Guild's telephone reservation service, became the first painless system of obtaining opera tickets for those who could not afford to be season subscribers. In return for the $10 membership premium Mrs. Belmont offered, besides Guild service, a seat to a dress rehearsal, admission to an "at home" party. By the end of the year she was able to turn over $50,000 to the Opera box office. Last week she boasted that her Guild now numbers...