Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time the President: 1) announced that he thought WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins had been well within his rights when he applauded the candidacy of Otha Wearin, 2) discouraged the movement in the Senate to investigate WPA's political practices, 3) sent a note to Minnesota's WPAdministrator, Victor Christgau...
...Approved the $37,000,000 omnibus Rivers & Harbors Bill, sent it to conference...
...Passed the Chandler Bankruptcy Bill amending the Federal Bankruptcy Law. notably to allow: 1) bankrupt individuals as well as corporations to have their debts adjusted downward in a Federal court, 2) SEC to intervene in corporate reorganizations; sent it to the President...
Silly is its plot, silly the Victorian primness that made the plot possible. Briefly, two young ladies get each other's dance bouquets by mistake, thereupon pine and languish in silence (except for eight or ten solos and duets) along with the tongue-tied swains who sent them. Although first-nighters felt now & then that they were being sprayed with charm as though from an atomizer, much of the time The Two Bouquets saved itself by being smartly paced, lightly keyed, freshly mounted...
...Cracked down on the farm equipment industry as the Federal Trade Commission sent to Congress the first installment of a long report charging the eight chief farm equipment companies with monopolistic practices. Last year, FTC found, was the most prosperous for farm machinery since the War, partly because prices were kept artificially high even when farm prices fell below normal...