Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surveying the U. S.-Mexican border, $4,734,500. In other years, these and such expenditures as PWA made for the lighthouse service, immigration service, public health service, Army and Navy would have gone to swell the regular budget, which President Roosevelt is at great pains to keep within tight bounds...
...masterpiece of verbal tight-rope walking. Criticism of the New Deal from conservative newspapers has been, for the most part, stupid and banal, taking the line that "traditional American ideals" are in danger. The doctor professed to take this as a legitimate danger; he indicated that he abhorred it, too, only--the danger was the other way around. That is to say, the real American ideals antedate the ideals of those who find their ideals endangered by the New Deal. It is confusing, of course. It can be made more delightfully confusing by saying that the democracy that Roosevelt democracy...
Meanwhile tight-mouthed Inventor Gregory dismantled his secret, entrusted it to his assistant, sold a share of the prospective proceeds to a man named Morris Weingood, went home for a rest before beginning work on a receiver capable of clutching enough power from the air to drive a five-car train...
...speculator," wrote Arthur William Cutten in the Satevepost few years ago. "I like to make money. There is a thrill in the actual process unequaled by any emotion a man of my years is apt to experience." Last week spare, tight-lipped Speculator Cutten experienced another emotion. The Federal Government, after examining his grain transactions over a long period, cracked down and bade him show cause why he should not be barred from trading in all U. S. contract markets. No less important a New Dealer than Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, as titular head of the Grain Futures Administration...
...keen nose for news, huge, psychic Hanfstaengl, who is Nazi liaison officer with the U. S. and British press and Hitler's good friend, accepted last fortnight and promised to bring along a fine set of Nazi propaganda movies (TIME, April 9). Then he sat tight to see what the Harvard and U. S. reaction would...