Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montana. That scandal was the prelude to worse troubles. In its effort to balance the Budget, the Senate taxed landlords 50% of any rent they charged, 150% of what they got. What with Wall Street investigations, the Depression got so thick that Julius, the Secretary of Commerce, disappeared. Sole memento of him was the White House parrot who kept saying "The Depression is over! The Depression is over!" In the uncanny way the little polly repeated Julius' slogan, and with that beak of his, Mr. Wintergreen was almost tempted to believe in reincarna tion...
...objections to such a plan are numerous. The undertaking of public works for the sole purpose of "creating" employment is liable to lead to the flagrant waste of public funds. In Germany where public money appropriated to increase employment was expended on parks and elaborate housing improvements instead of on other things which were much more essential to a war-ridden, debt-burdened country, there is a striking example of this misdirection of public wealth. It is a truism in economics that such schemes as that proposed by the Democratic Committee of the Senate for the undertaking of public enterprises...
...sole defendant to take the witness stand Lieut. Massie at no time testified that he had shot and killed Kahahawai. His story ran only up to the moment when the brown-skinned native blurted: "We done it." After that the young submarine officer swore his mind went blank, he had no recollection of what he did. Prosecutor John C. Kelley openly doubted this version of the Kahahawai killing, indicated that he thought one of the two seamen had really fired the shot. But clever old Clarence Darrow, chief defense counsel, gave his adversary no opportunity to enlarge upon this doubt...
...Sole work done by the Disarmament Conference last week was to "approve the principle of reducing armaments to the lowest limit consistent with national safety" and to adopt an Anglo-American resolution calling for an attempt by the Conference to attain "qualitative disarmament" and decide what weapons are "most efficacious against national defense" (with a view to limiting such weapons...
...friend of any other member. The House offers, in addition to physical advantages, an opportunity for persons with similar interests to become acquainted, and for this reason it should contain a 'cross-section" representative of all intellectual groups. The House Plan also extends advantages which were once the sole possession of clubs and fraternities to all the members of the college. But a House is in no sense a club...