Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scrawling his signature on a stack of bills, Franklin Roosevelt came to one, signed, passed on without ceremony to the next and the next. The bill in question appropriated $10,000 for the preparation of a site and authorized the erection at private expense of a monument to Grover Cleveland, a Democratic President who, in an earlier depression, vetoed every bill he thought was unconstitutional, fought bitterly with Congress to maintain the gold dollar, and declared that "though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people." ¶ The Treasury presented the President with figures...
...Houston marched into Washington with a big sombrero on his head, an Indian blanket over his shoulders and a tiger-skin vest around his middle, sat in the Senate for 13 years whittling at a stack of wood. But he was a gallant, handsome man, with the Indian's poise and dignity, and even Virginia ladies loved him, until he began to talk against secession. Back in Texas as Governor, he lost his office when he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederate Government. The whole South drummed "the hoary-haired traitor" to his grave...
...appeals for continuing NRA have come to the White House. They show that people realize that something will have to be done, but people don't yet realize what the Supreme Court decision means in plain language. (The President began to read excerpts from the stack of messages in his hand.) Here's a telegram from the druggists of Indiana: "Save us small business men from the ruthless destruction caused by the killing of NRA. . . ." Here's another from New York: "Issue a proclamation calling for observance of NRA and hold a plebiscite on continuing it. . . ." Here...
...game of trading, for "strategic" reasons, in control of other lines. Pennsylvania's investments in Lehigh Valley and Wabash alone cost $106,000,000. At today's prices those holdings are worth about $4,000,000⊕ Mr. Atterbury's personal memorial, however, is not a stack of securities but Pennsylvania's $270,000,000 improvement and electrification program carried out in his last five years-five years of Depression. Electrification of the main line from New York through to Washington will save the road $7,250.000 annually. An even more impressive memorial is the fact...
With a Crimson runner placing in every event of the afternoon, and with seven new records established in the Varsity events, Eddie Farrell's Varsity cindermen Saturday rolled up a stack of points which topped by five tallies the combined totals of their opponents, while the first year men garnered double the points of their nearest competitor at the Stadium...