Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet] discussion was directed to measures for reduction of expenditures, with a view to meeting possible reduction of revenue arising from slack times...
...enter and leave the city. . . . Yet it is this geographical position that makes it a city of over 3,000,000 population. . . . You have found time to read about crime in Chicago without profit to yourself. Spend a little more time and learn how you can take up the slack in your business by sales in the Chicago area...
Stalin and Business. Grateful indeed in these slack times are most U. S. businessmen to receive orders from Dictator Stalin's agents. Newsorgans which report every new contract to build up the Red State begin with the Wall Street Journal and by no means end with the Boston Herald, the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger, the Stockton (Calif.) Independent...
Ever since slack-chinned Prince Nicholas of Rumania became a chronic reckless driver (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929, et seq.), he has been a favorite subject for speculative diagnosis with the Viennese psychiatrists, who gather nightly to drink coffee with whipped cream at the Cafe Siller on the Franz Josef Quai. Many and ingenious have been the explanations of why H. R. H. groin-kicked the driver of a taxi with which he had collided (TIME, Dec. 30). First Viennese psychiatrist to issue his ideas to the press was Dr. Erwin Wexburg...
...General Albert Sidney Burleson, Republican Senators tried to blame him for any wrongdoing. But it was Republican Postmaster General Will Hays who signed the first lease in 1922, Republican Postmaster General Harry Stewart New who renewed it in 1925. Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown was accused of being very slack and indifferent to extirpating the alleged fraud...