Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fraction of the way to meet the Veterans' demands. He announced that to "correct inequalities" he had by executive order restored certain of his pension cuts: an increase from $90 to $100 a month in pensions for total, service-connected disabilities; liberalization of hospital privileges for all sick veterans; an increase of burial allowances for dead veterans from $75 to $100. Cost of the changes: $21,000,000 a year, cheap if it serves to smother the Reed bill...
...Sick abed though he was with twinging rheumatism, M. Anatole de Monzie, paunchy French Minister of Education, leaped from between sheets, tore off his nightshirt, wriggled into his flannel union suit and hastily dressed, cursing, when last week he learned that his honor was being smutted in the Chamber...
...dinner engagement with an interesting person whose favor you were seeking, how long would you delay keeping the engagement to wait for the veterinary to come to see your very sick...
...Rico's board. The politicos rebelled when he asked appointees for undated resignations in advance. Having fallen into every political pitfall the Legislative opposition set for him, blundering Governor Gore suffered more when his house was twice bombed three months ago. Shortly thereafter he departed Puerto Rico on sick leave. Arriving in Manhattan, the exasperated administrator told ship news reporters: ''That's just what you expect in those countries down there!" Last week just what everyone in Washington had expected occurred. Governor Gore resigned. ''The climate of Puerto Rico," he explained to President Roosevelt...
...charter which conflicted with his program. Occupied with fighting opposition from Tammany legislators at Albany, he was not prepared to be stopped in his bold career by a high-minded Governor. As everyone knows, Democrat Herbert Henry Lehman is the great and good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Very sick (appendectomy) last autumn when Mayor LaGuardia won the first reform vic tory in New York City in 20 years, mild-mannered Governor Lehman was dutifully on deck last week for the opening of his Legislature. A question affecting the governing laws of New York City...