Word: sop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numbers, occupations and geographical distribution of the unemployed have never been accurately known. Without such knowledge relief funds cannot be spent intelligently, public works cannot be spread where they will do the most good, NRA cannot calculate how much reduction in the work week is necessary to sop up the puddles of joblessness. More important, the Administration cannot lay a sound plan tor unemployment insurance such as President Roosevelt recommended last week...
Pleased with his sop to Vienna's imperial sentimentalism. Chancellor Dollfuss later called on Eugen at the Teutonic Order's palace...
...many inflationists. Silverites soon began to clamor for a second precious casket from the White House. For a long time the President demurred. Last week to keep the peace he sent a silver casket to the Capitol. When Congressmen lifted the lid, they found its contents to be: three sops, a new tax, and some consoling generalities. There is also a tradition that he who chooses a silver casket "shall get as much as he deserves." Most silverites in Congress professed to be pleased. Senator Key Pittman of silvery Nevada promptly delivered a two-hour oration in favor...
...since the present number of foreign actors in the United States is surely not so enormous as to hinder the possible employment of local talent now out of work. Even as a bit of private weaseling the bill is pitifully transparent. On the one hand, it is a sop to the actors who insist that something must be done for domestic incompetents now out of jobs, and in its magnanimous provision that the presence of distinguished foreign artists in America will be tolerated, it is a concession to producers who would probably not remain altogether silent at being forced...
...pound on cocoanut and sesame oil, partly for revenue, partly as a sop to U. S. lard and cottonseed producers...