Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to an Appropriations subcommittee in secret session last month. Testifying on the Treasury-Post Office supply bill, Mr. Morgenthau calmly observed that a public debt of $50,000,000,000 was in certain prospect for the U. S., and would by no means strain the nation's financial structure. Shocked protests answered Mr. Morgenthau. But realists on Capitol Hill knew that he was only putting it mildly. They knew that the PUB† era is here to stay as long as any member of Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet can foretell, and they knew...
...figure in English literature, it has been produced on Broadway only once (for a week in 1926) in 43 years. One reason: the whole play cannot be performed in a single evening; another: Falstaff is not only the greatest but the fattest of comic figures, and a severe physical strain on any actor who, all padded and stuffed, impersonates him. For that weighty reason, Maurice Evans announced he would play Falstaff for only four weeks...
...actors, opening night means excitement and strain under the cold, fishy stare of critics. For the critics, opening night means running, sometimes before the show is over, back to their typewriters. For authors, after squirming in a seat at the rear of the house or wandering backstage with a brandy bottle, it means keeping a death watch until 4 a.m., when the papers come...
...workman's protest jelled into an idea and in 1931 Geo. A. Hormel & Co. tried an experiment, offered its smokehouse employes a guaranteed annual wage to ease the shock of layoffs, the strain of rushes. Since then the company has made industrial history with a "straight-time" annual wage plan, under which workers in Hormel's big main plant at Austin are paid a stated wage for a stated amount of work, regardless of the time it takes them...
...prison will be to seek unity for the labor movement-a progressive unity that looks to the future instead of the past. ... I am sure that by living cautiously I can live another quarter century. I have no doubts about my ability to withstand the mental strain of release. My heart and mind have never been confined to prison walls...