Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen have done very well in the twelve-month just past. They took in $1,800,249, spent $1,697,376, had $546,504 in cash on hand Aug. 31. Their reported, dues-paying membership was up 383,267 to 4,006,354. Outside analysts always take union totals on suspicion, generally deflate the Federation's official figure by at least 1,000,000 to get at the actual, paid-up membership. But the most significant story of A. F. of L., 1939 was not in totals claimed or actual. It was where those reported gains were made...
...only charity but a ceremony attendant on the presentation by the French Government of the Diplome de Grand Prix to Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes. Meanwhile, at one of his father's endowments, the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins announced that Chicago, would gladly take over Oxford's Rhodes scholars during...
...personally take exception at seeing foreign statesmen stand up and call me guilty of having broken my word because I have now put these revisions through...
Whether or not the Kremlin was preparing to take almost defenseless Bessarabia from Rumania like candy from a baby, and regardless of how much truth lay behind sensational reports of joint action in the Near East being contemplated by Russia and Turkey to overwhelm Syria, Palestine and Iraq, it remained an arresting fact that in Moscow the official tone was markedly anti-British, anti-French and pro-German...
...never in my life had such a naturally dramatic scene to take. The child bent down over her sister, refusing to believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful the face had been. When she stood up, I put my arm around her, and with the little Polish I know, tried to comfort...