Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holt of Kokomo, Ind. might have been among the mayors testifying in Washington had he not been turned out of office by Kokomo's voters last November. Last week, Olin R. Holt was convicted, with five other Kokomen, of diverting WPA labor to private enterprise. Mr. Holt spent seven months in Leavenworth eight years ago for protecting bootleggers, regained his civil rights in 1934 when Franklin Roosevelt gave him a full pardon...
...their State to sell services. "We must export," recently said Herr Hitler, a legitimate heir to this tradition, "or die." In the rush to catch up to western industrial powers, Germany has tried ever since 1871 to syncopate history. A patron saint among German economists is Friedrich List, who spent seven years in the U. S., learned to admire Alexander Hamilton's protectionist philosophy and went home to write his National System of Political Economy (1841). While Prussia was busy consolidating the German nation by successive wars with Denmark, Austria and France, no one paid much attention to List...
...decline has been even more precipitous. Money that formerly went into dwellings and the making of machines for producing articles that could be enjoyed is now funneled off by Government command into industrially sterile armaments and showy public monuments. Before the War only 5% of the national income was spent on armaments-and that was a time when Colonel House was reporting that Berlin presented a spectacle of "militarism run stark mad." Today one-fourth of the national income goes for guns, fortresses and stadia for the self-glorification of Nazi party meetings...
...comparison with 1932 standards the Nazis have raised the level of over-all German consumption. But immediate consumption (which omits money spent for housing construction) is still 10% below that of 1927. Moreover, Nazi economists themselves predict a decline of purchasing power for this year. The regime gains acquiescence from the majority because the industrial working class (approximately 40% of the population) has lost relatively less income than the upper, upper middle and lower middle classes-and with the unemployed now at work the class as a whole has gained. The farmers (approximately 21% of the population) receive about what...
Green-eyed, redheaded, Irish-born Greer Garson travelled 12,000 miles for her first cinema role. Hired by Louis B. Mayer after he saw her on the London stage, hustled to Hollywood, she was tested for a role in Dramatic School, instead spent her time in California having an appendectomy and weathering a siege of influenza. The flu proved lucky, since Dramatic School was a flop. MGM's present plans for her, barring illness, are, first, a part in Susan and God, then the lead in Myron Brinig's May Flavin...