Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker-Governor Lehman is now running for the U. S. Senate, and local adversaries took mild issue with his figures, saying that some of his indicated surplus funds were already pledged, that he had played a common little trick of year-end balance reading. Sharper issue, against a national sounding-board, was taken by the ex-Governor who created the deficit. In his speech at Covington, Ky. (see p. 7), Franklin Roosevelt digressed...
...bullets were round and their motion through the barrel resembled that of the screw ball thrown by Pittsburgh's Cy Blanton, and when the bullet left the end of the barrel, it had a sharper curve than Dizzy Dean's They went straight for a certain distance and then broke sharply like a pitcher nipping the corner of an imaginary plate...
Eccles. After Commissioner of Labor Statistics Isador Lubin had described the 1,550,000 drop in employment in November and December as "sharper than any which had occurred in this country in recent years,"* Marriner S. Eccles, thin-lipped chairman of the Federal Reserve System, took the stand. Marriner Eccles was one of the first New Deal officials to come out for balancing the budget. Last week he announced that he still favored a balanced budget but that it could be obtained now only by increased taxes, which would be deflationary; so would any cut in Government expenditures...
Meanwhile, survivors of the Panay reached Shanghai on her sister ship the Oahu, bringing with them a story backed by newsreel photographs that brought the entire crisis to an even sharper peak...
...young man," came the voice, sharper perhaps than was expected, "what do you mean by attending my class with a hockey stick...