Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this winter and spring they will be deliberately encouraging the withholding of buying-they will be fostering a downward spiral, and they will make it necessary for their Government to consider other means of creating purchasing power." The phrase "other means of creating purchasing power" could mean only one thing-spending. Realists in Washington felt morally sure last week that unless business picked up in the spring the Administration program for dealing with depression would finally emerge as pump priming. A shot of inflation had worked once, and the needle was still in the medicine chest...
...West has been at loggerheads with Mr. Ickes ever since he parked his car in the portico of the old Interior building in a space reserved for Mr. Ickes' Packards. But he is a Presidential appointee and cannot be removed. Last week Mr. Ickes did the next best thing. He removed James Rohrer, Mr. West's brother-in-law and administrative assistant, transferred his secretary, his stenographer and his messenger to the General Land Office. All Mr. West had left was a receptionist...
...services in boosting tariffs on lumber, wool, and fruit and his reputation as The Veterans' Friend have been dimmed by more spectacular political personalities to the point where Fred Steiwer's chances for re-election this year were doubtful indeed. Lately his colleagues understood that the only thing that kept him from resigning to return to private life was his loyalty to his senior colleague, Minority Leader Charles McNary...
...thing for a man holding one office to think about obtaining another office. It impairs his usefulness. It is like necking in a closed car on a moonlight night, after a good dinner and champagne. Don't start...
...Vagabond felt pleasantly stimulated as he swung down the platform to his car, and handed his valise to the porter. Examinations weren't so bad after all, be thought, but the best thing about them was their end. Might as well slip into the diner now, before it gets crowded, and get a bite to eat. Hmm! Not very hungry though, in spite of the work he'd been doing lately. Exams seem to take it out on your nervous system, more than anything else. Guess he'd let it go at a club sandwich, and fortify himself with something...