Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were a half-dozen clashes between guards and strikers throughout Spain. Twenty-four people were killed; in one stretch of 48 hours eleven citizens died, 60 were wounded. In the Cortes. Socialist deputies threatened a general strike and attacked the civil guard as terrorists. Premier Manuel Azana threw wide his arms soothingly...
Federal relief for hungry Industry is the keystone of President Hoover's whole legislative program. But Federal relief for hungry individuals he, his followers and most "right thinking" people vigorously damn as a "dole." To make direct aid by the Treasury unnecessary, the White House coordinated a nation-wide campaign for private contributions to local charity to sustain the needy, stressed "individual initiative," "community responsibility." But for every 50˘ thus voluntarily contributed, governments? city, county. State ? are spending $1 in tax money to relieve mass distress. If a "dole" consists of public support of the needy, countless jobless...
...suspicious of two Italianate men in dark overcoats and soft hats who came into the Easton. Pa. post office one morning last week was the shape and weight of the six packages they shoved through the window. The packages seemed identical. Each was about 10 in. long, 5 in. wide, 5 in. deep. Each weighed 6 Ib. Yet the senders, in arguing about the packages' value, insisted each contained something different. They were "gifts," the men said: one package contained perfumery, another clothing, another a desk set. . . . The men seemed in a hurry. They argued for only a moment, then...
Zimbalist had just arrived in the U. S. (1911) when he met Soprano Alma Gluck. She was standing at the prow of a ferryboat, on her way to sing in New Jersey. Some one spoke to her and she turned around to see Zimbalist standing there with a great wide smile wrinkling up his homely face. For three years thereafter he hung around the Metropolitan Opera stage door while she insisted that she was not interested in marrying again, that it would not be becoming for her to marry a man younger than herself. Finally she surrendered, and there began...
...national banks did not have to charge off any depreciation on bonds of the U. S., States, municipalities. Examiners were ready to appraise at their face value all bonds in the four highest categories of famed rating services.* On all other bonds except those in default examiners were given wide latitude to use their own discretion, appraising securities at what they thought were their "intrinsic value...