Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well knew that the Woodrum committee's inquiry was the hottest pan WPA has yet been on, that, in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes was quietly preparing to amend the Relief setup so as to require States and localities to contribute one-third of the cost. Awaiting his turn to testify before the Woodrum committee. Colonel Harrington spent a busy week getting 200.000 cut off his rolls to bring them down to 2,600.000. He knew this could not be done without local disturbances. Sure enough, in Flint. Mich., 750 families cut off relief established a "death watch...
...will be nicely past the Constitutional minimum of 35 in 1944. Harold Stassen's first purpose in visiting Washington was to promote cooperation between his reorganized State Government and the Roosevelt Administration. His second was to tell G. 0. P. Chairman John Hamilton how to turn out the New Deal in 1940. His way: eschew attacks on "the sound social objectives" of the New Deal, promise to do more for the farmers than Franklin Roosevelt has done...
...French military mission, anticipating the day when American factories will turn out tons of French war material, arrived in the U. S. to arrange "educational orders...
...Charles A. Lindbergh as a "paid liar" for alleged slurs on Soviet aviation. Speaking German and French, he will still be able to talk turkey with the British-French "Peace Front." If these talks fail (as they were on the point of doing last week) he can turn to negotiations with the Dictators' front...
...said, "I name this ship Prince of Wales. May God guide her and guard and keep all who sail in her." Robert Johnson, head of Cammell Laird, was less restrained: "If I were in Chancellor Hitler's shoes and heard of the wonderful speed at which we can turn out our ships, I think I'd turn on my axis...