Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pockets bulging with papers like those of a country lawyer, General Johnson left the White House as soon as the President had issued his statement. Unofficially he had been talking to industrialists for weeks about the Recovery Act. That evening he was scheduled to speak to harassed soft-coal men in Chicago. When his airplane was grounded by fog at Pittsburgh. General Johnson addressed his audience by radio. He strongly urged his distant hosts to "put into effect provisions which you find necessary to protect the willing and the forward-looking among your members from the racketeers and price-cutters...
Employment. And last week though the stockmarket dipped and commodities turned soft, business continued to improve -long after the normal summer decline usually sets in. In San Francisco Amadeo Peter Giannini declared the Depression '"over." upped salaries in his Bank of America, restored dividends. In Akron the tire industry, rounding out its preparations for the National Industrial Recovery Act, topped two increases in tire prices with a 10% wage increase. In Washington the Federal Reserve announced that its index of department store sales stood only 2% under a year...
...bank ever to fail), serving three to six years for fenegling with the bank's funds. The same day trial began to recover assessments of $25 a share from 170 stockholders of the failed bank, and Mr. Singer faced the prospect of a temporary vacation from his soft-carpeted cell to testify...
...into Ellington's performances. Ellington and his players cling to the Negro dialect. Hot obligates are still "riffs" to them. Dapper Sonny Greer, probably the world's greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would be for a presto or an allegro con spirito, Ellington says. "Get off, now- Sock it!" Where symphonic conductors would call for a solemn andante the hot jazz command is, "Come...
Perhaps the President had in mind some particularly deserving mainland Democrat whom he wished to put into a particularly soft berth. But the only Democrat thus mentioned last week was Benjamin Barr Lindsey, disbarred juvenile court judge of Denver and few party leaders thought he rated the appointment...