Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt points with pride to a mass of useful legislation he has wangled out of a hostile Legislature with soft words and threats. He has put through an old age State pension law. He has won permission to raise $50,000,000 by bonds to house the State's sick, insane and criminal. He has reduced rural taxes. He has advanced a broad program for reforestation. He has put more occupational diseases under the Workman's Compensation Act, improved rent laws. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor has praised his record on labor legislation. The Governor...
...there are also times when the sedentary life, with pipe, Tom Collinses, an arm chair and all the other appurtenances of leisure seem the only thing, indeed when they are the only thing. On the threshold of such an epoch the Vagabond has arrived, Dunhill in hand. He is sick of wastin' leather on gritty pavin' stones. He is also sick of college. Above all he is sick of grinding out his daily drivel for the unmitigated pleasure of Freshmen while they wait for their questionable eggs at the Union. There is something revolting about the eternal, saccharine romance...
What will be R. F. C.'s loaning policy? That is the first and all-important question its directors will have to answer. The law gives them wide discretion, only forbidding them from accepting foreign securities. A sample case: a "sick" railroad comes before R. F. C. for help; it must meet a $40,000,000 bond issue within the month or go into receivership; the Railroad Credit Corp. has advanced it $15,000,000 from the increased freight rate pool and taken its last shaky collateral. Will R. F. C. let it have $25,000,000 on nothing more...
...Though he had been forced to hand in his resignation, sick old Aristide Briand clung to his Foreign Office desk at the Quai d'Orsay until the last minute. Premier Laval called personally, begged him to accept an honorary Cabinet post. Brer Briand issued an acid statement: "M. Briand would prefer to study the juridical and diplomatic form in which he might contemplate eventual collaboration...
Gigantic, limping Andre Maginot, Minister of War, died last week of typhoid fever. Friends of indomitable old Aristide Briand were forced to admit that he was too sick a man to continue as Foreign Minister. The Cabinet of Pierre Laval tottered...