Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs Foundation busily added up the "take" of the President's birthday celebrations, found the total exceeded $1,000,000. Last week, in spite of the spirit of the New Deal, Warm Springs Foundation had not yet got around to giving the public a financial statement of its condition or information on how the money is to be spent...
...during the past year had fled abroad was already beginning to come home because of the semi-stabilized dollar. More insistent than ever were predictions that France would have to leave the gold standard if it wanted to check the flight of capital to the U. S. So in spite of heavy purchases of francs to obtain gold, there were even more heavy sales of francs by people who wanted to buy dollars. In consequence the price of the franc fell, making it still more profitable to ship French gold...
Last week, however, he did not seem greatly worried about it, for capital coming to the U. S. was having the inflationary effect he wanted. And the long-run inflationary effect was exactly what the President's proclamation aimed at. Last week in spite of the President's proclamation the dollar was worth 61? to 63? to those who sold it to buy gold in Europe; it was worth 138? (according to the Department of Labor's commodity price index) to citizens who used it to buy what they needed in the U. S. The only person...
...aircraft carrier Langley and made commander of the aircraft squadron of the battle fleet. In that post he was credited with doing a masterful job in whipping the Navy's air force into an effective fighting unit. After a year he was made a rear admiral, but in spite of his rank, dignity and grey beard, he was frequently to be found not only in the cockpit of a plane but also driving his second-hand Ford roadster...
...January 27, 1934, Auditor Hurley announced that Mr. Gill had "doctored" four inmates' records at Norfolk. On January 29, in spite of Mr. Gill's report (published with permission of the Commissioner of Correction) that the records corrected were not official, Mr. Gill was "withdrawn" as Superintendent. Twelve hours before Mr. Gill returned to Boston from Connesticut, it was announced in every metropolitan paper that he had been "ousted." These reports were rumored to have been spread by Mr. Gill's enemies...