Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take from our gold hoard of $15,000,000,000 the sum of $5,000,000,000 and with this sum sit into a conference of nations to redistribute the sources of raw materials...
...Security Agency would take in the now independent Social Security Board, National Youth Administration (now part of WPA), Civilian Conservation Corps (independent), also the old U. S. Employment Service and Office of Education (now in the Departments of Labor and Interior, respectively) and the Public Health Service (from the Treasury...
...Congress, the Reorganization Act's best friends, Representative Lindsay Warren of North Carolina and Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina (TIME, April 3), had support well lined up. But their sponsorship of reorganization did not necessarily mean that they wanted all the agencies continued forever. Take WPA, for example. Jimmy Byrnes has ideas about that. Last week he politely shelved his bill to put WPA into a Department of Public Works (TIME, Jan. 23) but he did not shelve his idea, in which many another friend of Economy concurs, of making the States & cities share the cost of Relief...
...have to dig down deeper into their pockets this year than last were to be found in Adolf Hitler's moves on the Continent. Best expression of the British man-in-the-street's reaction to the Hitler budget appeared on a newspaper handbill: "We Can Take...
...weeks workmen have swarmed over the battle cruiser Repulse, painting, polishing and refitting cabins, preparing her to take King George and Queen Elizabeth on their visit this month to Canada and the U. S. Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced a sudden switch of plans: Their Majesties would travel not on the Repulse but on the prosaic, old, German-built liner Empress of Australia, known as the Tirpitz before she was handed over to Britain by Germany as part of reparations payment after the World...