Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Isolationists snorted at the proposal that good money be sent abroad after bad. But the President explained that the borrowers were to be good South American neighbors, not wicked European defaulters. The money would all be spent in or for the U. S., opening and reconstructing export markets. Moreover, Jesse Jones would be the watchdog on duty...
...appropriation bill, as sent up by the House to the Senate last fortnight (TIME, June 26), discontinued work relief for employes in the Federal Theatre Project, for reasons of unnecessity, inefficiency, immorality and Communism. The same bill last week provided Congressmen with relief from their work. Into Washington swept throbbing, throaty Actress Tallulah Bankhead (The Little Foxes), chosen by FTP's friends to lobby for it because her Uncle John is Alabama's senior Senator, her father Speaker of the House...
...yields a 10% Federal tax on its admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows to relieve the distress of others. At her conclusion Miss Bankhead broke into tears. Next day she sent the committee a vast basket of roses...
...last week were three freshmen Governors and one postgraduate, all engaged in bitter-end battles with their Legislatures. Texas' Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits") O'Daniel, having surprisingly turned into a sincere if nai've executive who could get nowhere against professional obstructors, sent his Legislature home from Austin with a near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record, adjourn with the least possible damage to their...
Well-liked by publishers, Max Salop is regarded as one of the best credit risks in the trade. To one of them he once sent a check made out for "one tusan dollars.'' The check was good. A kindly man, he refuses to install bookkeeping machines in his offices, because they take away jobs. A thrifty man, he does not hesitate to take his family on vacations to Miami, Atlantic City, Lakewood, N. J. According to another Salop legend, when his first child was born, 16 years ago, Salop put her on his payroll at $75 a week...