Word: token
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forty-Gallon Baptis" gets a token he is going to die at 10 o'clock that night. He makes the event an occasion to prove to his benighted Free-Will neighbors the error of-their ways...
...Herriot was ousted as Premier for insisting that France should pay something on her War debt to the U. S. Last week on a platform in Lyons he did his best to rub his opponents' noses with the fact that by refusing to make even a token payment, France had lost an ally of incalculable value...
...sanctimonious, bulb-eyed Premier William C. Aberhart explained: "We haven't the money. I'm sorry." Fact was that ''Bible Bill" Aberhart had inherited a $150,000,000 load of indebtedness from his predecessors, had only $140,000 with which to make an interest "token payment" on the two defaulted issues. Social Crediteer Aberhart decided to pay no token...
...this, the eight thousand men who contributed last year suggests the almost universal appreciation, by Harvard graduates, of the value of education in the social scheme, and the equally universal desire to improve and assist education at Harvard, no matter how hardly come by or how relatively small the token. Support of privately-endowed education must be more than material. It must have social and psychological props, and the thousands contributing illustrate the soundness of its foundation...
...Better token of an election-year spring than the balmy air filling the White House office, was the way in which President Roosevelt had begun to stroke the fur of his conservative critics in the right direction. Last week he gave a White House luncheon to the members of Secretary of Commerce Roper's Business Advisory Council. That body of tycoons, now depleted by the resignation of numerous members disgusted with the way the President had ignored their advice for three years, also enjoyed a three-hour table discussion during which they basked in the equinoctial warmth...