Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home consumption since no one expected the bonus bill to become law. Last week in what was not a gesture but a deliberate affront to the White House, the House voted 247 to 169 against a rule which, in effect, would have rejected the Senate's amendments. This step taken, the House cast regard for the Administration to the winds and proceeded to make the bill over to suit itself-a thing it did not dare to do two months ago. Neither black-browed Majority Leader Byrns nor white-crested Speaker Rainey could stem the tide. The House...
...deficit was a 10% decline in German export prices. Actually, figured in quantities, German exports for February, 1934 were well above those for February, 1933, before the boycott began. Furthermore, the high import total was explained by the fact that the Nazi leaders have lately prodded German businessmen to step up production, buy more raw materials like cotton, copper and wool...
...historical picture in the grand manner, conducted with splendid energy and style. "Dignity" is what old Mayer Amschel Rothschild advises his sons to acquire. The picture, like Nathan Rothschild, is dignified without being stupid. As squealing little Julie Rothschild, Loretta Young manages to be gay without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into his script, Helen Westley is superb. Called upon to explain why she has lived so long...
...notes were secured by all of White Star's outstanding stock. Mr. Franklin said he had not been consulted. The terms of the merger, he thundered, were grossly unfair to White Star stockholders. While he personally was not a stockholder his company was a short step from being the stockholder...
President of the Board of Overseers. Previously the ceremony had been carried out by the governor of Massachusetts, but the custom was changed because of an alteration made in the constitution of the Board of Overseers in 1865. This change was hailed by Clifford as a progressive and important step. In his address to the new president lie said, "Now for the first time in its history, the college stands alone--unsupported by the state--and dependent only upon itself to justify its claim to the lofty position it ought to occupy among our institutions of learning, of which...