Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account of hot weather. If anyone had a good case he pressed for action. In so many words Franklin Roosevelt said that rich men, such as newspaper publishers,* who oppose his tax bill had a weak case, while he had a strong case. Ergo, he pressed for action. Congressmen spend their legislating hours in the air-conditioned Chambers of the House and Senate.† If they were to leave Washington most of them would have to do without any air-conditioning at all, would find temperatures at home as hot as in Washington, if not hotter. Undoubtedly the lobby putting...
...right to spend its money as it likes without what it calls "red tape" and what Comptroller General McCarl calls "statutory limitations...
...Jumped to a conclusion that His Majesty's Government have decided to reject the vote-getting New Deal scheme of David Lloyd George to "spend Britain back to Prosperity" (TIME, Dec. 24) when Prime Minister Baldwin sharply condemned the present extravaganza of public works in "a very great country...
...ante). Though the opinion went out of its way to exonerate Mrs. Vanderbilt of her onetime maid's charge that she behaved indiscreetly with the Marchioness of Milford Haven, it pointedly concluded: "If the relator [Mrs. Vanderbilt] shall avail herself fully of her rights under the order, she will spend more time with her child than for many years past...
Less than a generation ago mass production of clothes began to overtake the pattern business. Women who used to spend their evenings at the dining room table under the gas light cutting their clothes from Butterick patterns found it cheaper and easier to buy ready-made dresses. For the first time in history pattern sales did not go up during the Depression as they had done in every previous business collapse. Though Butterick is still one of the big four pattern makers,* its sales sloped off from a peak...