Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirds. It was a choppy, diffuse oration, composed by many minds (see p. 49), but it got right down to the job it had to do. After planting himself firmly in Iowa ("I was born and raised here. My father and mother spent their lives here"), Harry Hopkins gave his own picture of his new job. Running WPA he had served the nation's bottom third. Now he served "the two-thirds of the population earning their living by what we consider to be the normal process of our economic system." To bring his former clients...
...Austrian masters, they would have undoubtedly chosen the Austrians. In Polish Austria, Poles had considerable autonomy. Poles were allowed to enter the Austrian Civil Service, had Polish schools and law courts. Under German rule few Poles held public jobs and under the Tsar many a Polish patriot (like Pilsudski) spent long, hard winters in Siberian exile...
...Indian leaders have fought so hard, spent so much of their personal fortune, endured such jail sentences in the cause of Indian nationalism as has Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Harrow- and Cambridge-educated Hindu Brahmin lawyer. Although calling himself a Socialist, Pandit Nehru has long played ball with Mahatma M. K. Gandhi's group of Rightists controlling the Indian National Congress, has compromised repeatedly, has twice been elected to the Congress presidency...
...Legion of Honor (an art gallery full of Rodins in Lincoln Park). Rumor in San Francisco was that the Fascist Government authorized the loan to San Francisco rather than New York City because Mussolini was in a pet about New York's Mayor LaGuardia. More likely story: having spent her full fair quota on a pavilion at the New York Fair, Italy had nothing but art to send to San Francisco...
...Defoe's Review, a weekly, biweekly and triweekly newspaper of opinion which he wrote singlehanded between 1704 and 1713. Before becoming a newspaperman at 45, Defoe had been a butcher, hosiery factor, wine importer, government lottery agent, tile manufacturer, South Sea speculator, bankrupt and convict. In 1703 he spent three days in the stocks (see cut) for publishing an annoying political pamphlet. Between jail terms he plumped mightily for freedom of the press, took secret cash handouts from ministers of all parties, acted as informer to governments and Kings...