Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill the President did not sign was the Third Deficiency Appropriation, carrying $93.000,000, which Senator Long's filibuster had killed the last day of the Session. Like many a housewife who keeps her grocery money in one purse, her clothes money in another, her amusement money in a third, the U. S. keeps its appropriations in separate purses. Like such a housewife, when one purse is empty the Administration schemes to see how it can legally borrow from the other purses. But nowhere could President Roosevelt find a purse from which to borrow $76,000.000 with which...
Under the Sign of the Ram, the Bull, the Twins, the Crab and the Lion John Farmer toils and sweats through spring and summer from dawn to dusk. But under Virgo, when the sun slants toward its autumnal solstice, he lays down his tools and turns his thoughts to rest and fun. Last week as August gave way to September the time had come for the gala event of the farm year?the State Fair. In twelve great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright...
Half a Kingdom. Fat Chaps held out to the acquisitive, Semitic Emperor a promise of at least $15,000,000 per year-triple Ethiopia's present revenue-if Power of Trinity would sign away for 75 years virtually all subsoil rights-precious metals and chemical substances as well as oil-in something more than half the Ethiopian Empire...
...William Tatem Tilden II, present as a spectator, announced that Perry's strokes were bad, predicted that Donald Budge would play him in the final, snubbed an autograph hunter who asked him to write his full name: "I'm like Garbo. I just sign my last...
...Allred, whose campaign promise of "no more pardon peddling" has been faithfully kept, nervously told of his latest nightmare: "I dreamed I was one of the condemned men and called for a secretary to prepare a proclamation commuting my sentence. But there was a question of whether I could sign it. Perhaps, I dreamed, the Lieutenant Governor in such a case would have to sign it. It worried me badly for I had only three minutes left to live. Then my secretary said she couldn't finish typing the proclamation in three minutes. Guards started carrying me into the little...