Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Army, too, had at first been satisfied with pensions for disabled veterans and dependents of men who had died in service. Step by step it had dipped deeper into the Treasury-in 1879 for any veteran whose disability presumptively could be traced to the war, in 1890 for disabled veterans whose ailments had nothing to do with the war. Final step was in 1907, when pensions were secured for every veteran regardless of his health or wealth, for widows who had married their veterans prior to June 27, 1905 and for their children. In 1935, 70 years after Appomattox...
Cried the American Veterans Association's Commander Donald A. Hobart of this long Legion step along the G.A.R. pension path: "The Cleveland convention . . . has definitely started the American Legion down the road to pensions for everyone...
...long step forward if for no other reason than it is a getting down to realities," pontificated the Wall Street Journal last week on the subject of the franc's devaluation and the promise of international monetary stabilization. Wall Street's more practical reaction to the most significant financial news of the year was to be found on stock-market tape, where its collective opinion is always best expressed. Share prices turned firmly if unspectacularly upward...
...Bunk!" exploded Samuel Instill few weeks ago when asked if he would resign the presidency of Affiliated Broadcasting Co., his first step over the sill of big business since his utilities empire crashed in 1932. Shortly after the first of the year, Insull friends put up $200,000 for A. B. C., gave the old utilitarian the presidency, let him pick three members of the five-man board. Profits of the chain (21 stations in the Midwest) stayed out of sight but the bottom of the original pot did not. Few weeks ago after Vice President Quisenberry shot away President...
...TIME, the daily enactment of the world's news as presented to you by Professor Bruce Hopper through the courtesy of the makers of Wrigley's gum. And now, these are the days for fall motoring, for beautiful trips through the country to see the foliage. Next time you step into your car, buy a package of Wrigley's gum, and chew a stick while driving. you will find a renewed pleasure in motoring...