Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Full of rearmament plans but temporarily checked by what the law schools term a "conflict of law," the Army has been impatiently marking time. All dressed up, it had no place to go. For President Roosevelt, while authorized to spend more than Congress has appropriated for Army pay, food, clothing for new recruits, was prohibited by law from doing the same for housing, hospitalization and transportation. And without funds the Army could not move men, had to shelve temporarily its plans for improved living quarters and medical facilities at numerous bases in the U. S. and her territories...
...Stone, the President made an announcement which sent the General Staff into a glad quickstep. His limited emergency proclamation last month gave him clear authority to increase the enlisted strength of Army, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard, said the President; therefore he had the implied authority to spend the necessary money, and he intended to go ahead, ask Congress afterwards...
...policy. Thirty-five years old, more outspoken than his father, he is extremely popular with the Army. During the last year he has worked hard, appearing at Army reviews in Libya only a few days after he had attended maneuvers in Northern Italy. He has found little time to spend in his big palace in the heart of Naples. The applause he receives at public gatherings is even more vociferous than that accorded Il Duce. Because of the Prince of Piedmont's growing popularity, the old familiar Italian cry of Avanti Savoia ("Forward, House of Savoy") has come...
...playhouse is "the plant." When he is in Detroit he gets to the office at 9 o'clock in the morning, gets out of it as soon as he can get through the mail, to go through one of the factories and to spend long hours in the engineering department. When he is on the road visiting the Chrysler factories outside Detroit, he spends his nights on Pullmans, his days in inspection and in whooping up the sales force. He hasn't had a drink since 1927 when his doctors assured him it was bad for his health...
...years ago he used to spend some of his evenings in the machine-shop in his basement, just tinkering, but lately he has had no time for that and it has been taken over by his 16-year-old son Richard. Last summer Richard built himself a one-lung automobile in the basement shop. Said his father, with the characteristic wrinkled grin that makes his eyes disappear: "A good mechanic's job-and I didn't help him." His other son, Robert, 27, is a Chrysler research engineer. No seeker for a college degree, he went to work...