Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never has the U. S. municipal judiciary sunk so low ... as when Judge Sylvain Lazarus of the San Francisco municipal court vilified and insulted the Filipino people (TIME, April...
...asked what he intended to do about them. He replied that he did not intend to carry them on as relief projects on relief money any longer. Washing his hands of Quoddy, on which he had spent $5,500,000, and the Florida Ship Canal, in which he had sunk $5,400,000, the President declared it was now up to Congress to take care of the two White House orphans...
...history of the nation. The "G" men are free from dirty politics and party "back-scratching" and for that reason the public can rest assured that money devoted to the cause of exterminating crime will not be spent unwisely. Funds extorted from the taxpayer should not be sunk in the briny waters of Passamaquoddy and withheld from the Justice Department's Bureau of Information at the same time. We are living in an administration of unprecedented liberality with public money and unwieldy bureaucracies. The alphabet has been twisted beyond recognition and 'Brain Trusters' have played havoc with age old American...
...should be an alternative to any one of the "Holy Trinity's" three elementary courses. When the Sociology Department was in process of formation, the question of adding it to the Division of History, Government, and Economics arose. It was eventually decided that the new department should not be sunk beyond recall beneath the overwhelming numbers of the three older fields. Instead Sociology was to be left to develop independently and make as many affiliations as it desired with other fields...
Depression sunk National Surety Co., not because thieving employees became more numerous but because bank failures and defaulted real estate mortgage bonds became so common. In May 1933, National Surety Co.. awash with $45,000,000 worth of guaranteed real estate mortgage bonds, went into the hands of George S. Van Schaick, at that time New York State Superintendent of Insurance. The Company was then succeeded by the Corporation. Directors & management of the Corporation bore a strong resemblance to directors & management of the Company,* but the Corporation abandoned the business of guaranteeing mortgage bonds and bank deposits, went back...