Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profoundly believe that the first great step towards safeguarding this nation from being drawn into war is to use whatever influence it can, compatible with the traditional policy of our country of noninvolvement, so as to make less likely the outbreak of a major...
Great was the to-do in 1933 when John Pierpont Morgan and his banking partners were discovered to have paid no income taxes for the years 1931 and 1932.* Franklin Roosevelt's legislators were put to work and the next year, restricted in their use of capital losses, Morgan & Co. paid heavily. They paid, but they appealed, and in due time the Bureau of Internal Revenue ruled in their favor. Last week the Treasury announced their refunds, as follows...
High-spirited, witty, gay, Edda Ciano has little respect for the conventions. In Shanghai she picked up much U. S. slang from Navy officers' wives and subsequently shocked many a diplomatic dowager with her indiscriminate use of "boloney." Once she surprised Sir Eric Drummond (now Lord Perth) by saying "Oakie doak, Sir Eric!" Her first-born child, Fabrizio, she nicknamed the "Little Chink." She caused an uproar at a full-dress diplomatic dinner in Peking by showing up in a tailored suit while her husband wore a dinner coat...
...solemn delegates met one day last week in the 14th annual convention of the tiniest national group in U. S. finance: the National Negro Bankers' Association. Through the day they listened to many a solemn paper on subjects that the august American Bankers Association might have scheduled: profitable use of FHA mortgages, handling of bond accounts, ways of boosting depressed bank earnings...
...silly, Yokel Boy is very fair entertainment. Comes Love should join the season's song hits. The chorus looks good and dances better. Judy Canova is an admirably droll musicomedy Sis Hopkins who flops only when she confuses herself with Bea Lillie. Yokel Boy Buddy Ebsen can use his feet. Tiny, titillating Dixie Dunbar can use her body. And Phil Silvers clowns convincingly as a loud, long-fingered Hollywood agent...