Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiscal 1938, dressed in lamb's clothing was last week ushered out by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. in the role of beneficent shepherd. He was able to say that the Treasury's deficit for the year of 1,459 millions was: 1) only 371 millions larger than predicted; 2) the smallest deficit of Franklin Roosevelt's administration. He was able to show that the National Debt had risen only 740 millions* the smallest rise since 1931. He could say these things because of: 1) some real reductions in Government over-head at the start...
...SILVER MAGNET-Grant Shepherd -Button...
Batopilas, Mexico, lies on a narrow shelf of land in a narrow valley in western Chihuahua, 350 miles south of El Paso, 300 miles north of Mazatlán. There, in the summer of 1880, five-year-old Grant Shepherd arrived with his mother, four sisters, two brothers, various relatives, two nurses, a doctor, four dogs. His father was manager of the ancient silver mines whose 70 miles of workings honeycombed the hills. The family had come overland from Washington, D. C., by train, wagon and pack mule, to make their home in Batopilas...
...remarkable fact abput this war was that Harry Gideonse went on teaching at the university, unmolested by his boss. Tall, lanky, Dutch-born Harry Gideonse is 37 (two years younger than President Hutchins) and well liked by his faculty colleagues. He strides about the campus with his big German shepherd dog, Bob, at his heels, sometimes takes the dog to class. While his controversy with President Hutchins brought him his chief fame, in eight years at Chicago he acquired a reputation as a crack economist, became the most popular speaker on the university's radio Round Table...
Mournfully replied Minister of Agriculture William Shepherd Morrison, a protege of Earl Baldwin: "The Ottawa Empire agreements do not permit such a course. The situation may greatly improve if there is rain in the next two weeks." All churches in the diocese of Bristol were ordered to offer prayers for rain. Within 48 hours heavy rains doused almost the whole of the British Isles, the drought was called "definitely broken...