Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herr Hitler is surely in need of a few scholarly advisers to save him from faux pas and Dummheiten [stupidities]. Unwittingly he has conferred royal titles on every last German Jew by his decree that all males must take the name Israel and all females the name Sarah...
...Administration Democrats ganged up on the Administration's second appropriation measure-a general Deficiency Bill-and chewed $3,550,000* off the bill's budgeted total of $13,529,000-an impressive saving of 26% which would have been truly sensational had Democrats had the heart to take off another $3,500,000 ticketed for a new Census Bureau building...
After their election victories of last November, it is now the turn of Rightists to try pillars of the Left, and ever since Congress convened they have been at it. Felix Frankfurter, Harry Hopkins, Frank Murphy led the parade, were obliged to take the witness chair and state publicly their political beliefs. Comparatively they made a much less diverting show, for the possession of even "radical" beliefs is less dramatic than the possession of great wealth, and these Leftists were far nimbler witnesses than the scared Rightists. Last week came the trials of two more Leftists, and again the performances...
...said he favored Government ownership of railroads and thought he would be "an invaluable asset" to the ICC because, if Congress decided to take over sick railroads, he would be vitally interested in the plan's success...
...ORLEANS--Henry Picard, of Hershey, Pa., today went straight down the fairways to card a 69 in the second round of the $10,000 Crescent City Open and take the load with an aggregate...