Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regardless of Administration policy, he for one will fight to reduce Government expenditures. ''Excessive Federal spending must cease. . . . Certainly we must take care of the hungry and starving, but you and I know there are thousands on the WPA rolls who have no business there...
Defending his 1938 tax law. which President Roosevelt sneered at and refused to sign, the Senator said: "You can't take 80 or 90% of a man's income in Federal taxes and expect him to risk his money in industrial investments. Money is what makes the mare...
...Straw Man." Viscount Runciman's entourage began complaining fortnight ago that they have found Konrad Henlein nothing but a "straw man," and last week the Sudeten Führer went to Berchtesgaden only to take the orders of his boss, Führer Hitler-for the fourth time this year...
...week, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, although continuing to evacuate Hankow and evidently believing he cannot defend it much longer, launched a Chinese offensive at the Japanese in boggy, half-flooded, malarial country near Kiukiang, 135 miles down the Yangtze River below Hankow. Even skeptical foreign observers were inclined to take at face value last week the Chinese claim that this desperate counteroffensive threw the Japanese back for heavy losses on the whole width of a 45-mile salient...
...clincher, the Mexican President said he had just as much right to take the lands of the rich as other presidents (like Neighbor Roosevelt) have had to forbid their people to possess gold coins...