Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rising cost of government last week moved Senator William Edgar Borah to declare: "The ever-growing burden of taxation is one of the great factors in bringing about our present Depression. . . . The most wasteful and extravagant part of the Government is this bureaucracy, nation wide, which we are building up. ... In the last two years we have established 26 Government commissions with their thousands of employes...
...artist was F. Bellew. The scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew's figure gained wide popularity and was taken over by Thomas Nast, cartoonist for Harper's Weekly in the 70s, who added whiskers, put stars on the vest. Except for minor embellishments, Uncle Sam thereafter became a standardized character of the Press...
...Ohio's potent Negro vote is Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman and party boss of Cleveland. Fortnight ago cigar-smoking, bridge-playing Boss Maschke went to St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church to help launch Negro Councilman Leroy Bundy's campaign for reelection. His wide mouth below a hawk nose stretched into a wide grin as he looked down benevolently upon 400 praying, chanting blacks. Up rose Rev. 0. A. Childress, Negro preacher, and spoke...
With America suffering from the effects of a world-wide depression, the production of "B. J. One" takes on the timeliness of a newspaper's extra edition. For Stephen King-Hall's play deals with the suicidal competition of great national steel companies geared up to the highest possible output by the World...
...necessarily a product of the environment in which they built, and it is extremely unlikely that any such conditions will ever again be approximated. Mr. Baker was one of the last of the economic pioneers whose fabulous wealth and stormy careers have made the American multi-millionaire a world-wide figure of mixed curiosity and worship...