Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order creating the C. C. C. and providing it with $10,000,000 as a starter. Appointed Director of Emergency Conservation Work (salary: $10,200) was Robert Fechner, 57. of Massachusetts, a vice president of the International Association of Machinists. The selection of this tall, austere Laborite was a sop to the A. F. of L. and its opposition to $1-per-day relief work...
...himself as the others were by the failure of his banks. He is prepared to defend himself. Still another consideration takes away some of the exhilaration that this attack on the "money-changers" would ordinarily cause. It seems only too probable that it is being offered up as a sop to the Western wolves. Since the days of the Populist movement and before, any anti-Wall Street steps have been hailed with glee by God's countrymen. It may be that Morgan, after a widely publicized prosecution, will be fined for walking on the grass or for missing an item...
Publishing the names of the banks to which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation extended aid has been characterized as a "vicious action" by Senator Atlee Pomerene, erstwhile mentor of the relief organization. He argues that the publication was in the nature of an unwise and unnecessary sop to public curiosity, and might have succeeded in undoing all the good that the loans had achieved. The unequivocal anger of his remarks indicates that he had operated under the misapprehension that no transactions were to be divulged, and that he views the public statement in the nature of a personal betrayal...
...increase in the capital of the Federal Land Bank system. This was the session's biggest sop to farmers...
Selby Clive (Mr. Conroy), a Canadian mining magnate, has a wife (chirrupy Fay Bainter). whose life has been made so pleasant for her by an adoring husband that boredom has driven her to the brink of indiscretion with a young sop named O' Ryan (Derek Fairman). By chance they learn that Clive changed his name from Selby 20 years before in Canada. By chance they also learn that a man named Selby, 20 years before in Canada, ingeniously did away with his philandering mate and her lover in a series of accidents arising out of circumstances which...