Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wreckage was roped off and guarded, day and night, by the Sheriff of St. Francis County, his deputies and by members of the Arkansas State Ranger forces. In spite of their good efforts we were unsuccessful in preventing some small parts of the airplane from being removed...
More in the nature of spectators than opponents were the ragged anti-Long array: old-line New Orleans Democrats; New Dealers, politically anemic in spite of spoonfeeding by Postmaster General Farley; reform zealots; lady Long-haters...
...figuring out the terms on which new loans should be floated, bonds refunded, a highly technical task of gauging the delicate appetite of the money market for Government securities. That he did a good job Washington last week agreed. That he was willing to do it so long, in spite of his naturally conservative leanings, was explained by the fact that he looked upon himself not as a policy maker but as an expert who merely put his skill at the service of his country. Last week, however, he quit, simply saying in his letter to the President: "Circumstances have...
...past the country has lived through it for a very simple reason,--that politics didn't matter anyway. But this, unfortunately, no longer is true, and no better illustration of the fact can be taken than the policies produced during this depression. No doubt can now remain, in spite of Henry Ford's continued insistence, that government policies are important, and that they must become increasingly so in the future...
...only two (1921 and 1932) of the last 50 years has Swift & Co. failed to make a profit. Last year it contribute $17,000,000 of the $32,000,000 earned by the Big Four. In spite of last year's tonnage decline-Swift slaughtered barely half as many hogs as in 1934-rising price produced sales of $767,000,000, nearly $150,000,000 higher than in 1934. Profit was up more than $6,000,000, but the thrifty Swifts appropriated a $6,000,000 reserve for possible inventory losses in the future. Since 1885, when Gustavus Franklin...