Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never take it), how about a state law for the licensing of such children as are the sole support of their families to sell papers? The age limit should be raised one year each year so that child labor could be eased out of the newspaper business without strain...
Miss McCormic, handsomely gowned, as the boys say, has an attractive voice which she uses without particular strain to encompass songs like "My Hero" and this being Boston, "Come Back to Erin," and "Macushla...
Public Character. Born of a strain that feels perfectly comfortable in the public eye, and prepared for the White House spotlight by four years in Albany's executive mansion, Mrs. Roosevelt has let the Press in on her most private comings & goings to an unprecedented extent. Her prodigious publicity has had several effects: to pain people who think the First Lady should be her husband's wife, not a front-page solo character; to gladden people who think it is fine that the country has a woman at its head as vitally interested in almost as many public...
...Washington atmosphere nowadays is conducive to huffiness. Nervous strain crackles throughout the enormously complicated network of the New Deal boards, bureaus, councils, committees. The jar of personalities is added to honest differences of opinion...
Most notable conflict of principle is that which exists between the President and nearly all of his chief fiscal officers. At the Treasury, there is no Secretary; William Hartman Woodin continues sick. Acting Secretary Acheson carries on under obvious strain while rubber-dollar professors get the ear of the President. Banker Bruere, appointed to co-ordinate credit activities, is, in one commentator's phrase, "outstared" by huge-framed Jesse Jones...