Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wave of complaints against the way CWA was run was only a mild ripple compared to the comber of complaints against the plan to stop running CWA altogether. Since Nov. 25 Mr. Hopkins has put 4,000,000 men on his payroll, paid them with checks on the U. S. Treasury and used up most of $400,000,000 allotted to him. This form of direct relief was originally planned to last only until Feb. 15 when PWA projects and business recovery were scheduled to provide fresh jobs. Not only pick & shovel men laying sidewalks, building wharves, working on public...
...tourist camp police picked up tall, scholarly Harry Pierpont (jailbreaker & murderer) who went with them meekly, suddenly pulled two guns when they tried to handcuff him, was subdued. In a radio store they picked up Charles Makley (jailbreaker, murderer, bank robber), busy buying a short wave set to get police alarms. In a city apartment they collared Russel Clark (same occupations), before he got his gun. Few hours later they seized John Dillinger (gang leader, police killer) as he arrived with a submachine gun under his coat...
...kept nervously wiping his forehead and gazing first at Auctioneer Otto Bernet, then at Mrs. Hubbard as she bid $100 at a crack with the raise of a pencil. It was Escort Edwin Krenn. "All this is breaking my heart," declared this beneficiary under the McCormick will, with a wave of his hand. "It cuts into me, you know, it cuts into...
...Business is the cause of all crime," was the opinion expressed by Clarence Darrow in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The only way to cure our present so-called crime wave is a radical redistribution of wealth so that no one would have more than another, thereby removing all temptation to commit crime...
...news it is good. It takes up the story begun by Mr. Lindley in his campaign biography of Roosevelt. A balanced readable account of the campaign moves naturally into the exciting story of the "Interregnum" and the "Crisis." Then the wave of public opinion for inflation, the London conference, the N. R. A. the "Official Family," and the inevitable "Brains Trust" get their chapters. Each is handled with a careful accuracy in detail and mild enthusiasm which shows the Rhodes Scholar Lindley inhibiting the feature writer Lindley...