Word: worded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TIME, always resourceful and concise, coin a word describing the occupation of a person who lives on an income from investments...
...French have a word for it-rentier-but I know of no one English word...
...depressed April, he said he proposed to "sail, not drift." But not until Congress had rigged the ship of state for him and cleared the decks by going home, was Skipper Roosevelt free to kick the tiller over and square away. Last week that moment came, and with vigorous word and action Franklin Roosevelt made perfectly clear what course he had laid out: through the narrow Strait of Recovery, boldly past the storm-ridden Primary Isles, to the snug harbor of Fall Elections...
...Readiest to go was WPA, where Adminstrator Harry Hopkins had only to say the word and thousands of added workers would be taken on the rolls at WPA's field offices. While that was happening, the more visible moves of WPA were: 1) To approve Sidney Hillman's plan for buying $10,000,000 of men's and boys' clothes for distribution to relief clients (TIME, June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers...
...State's big Democrats plenty to talk about as they rode to Senator Copeland's funeral, held at his rambling white home in peaceful Suffern. After the funeral Herbert Lehman returned to his summer place at nearby Purchase, picked up the telephone, dictated a 25-word statement to his secretary in Albany: "If my party desires me to be a candidate for the office of U. S. Senator to succeed Senator Copeland, I will accept the nomination." Some leaders rejoiced, others fumed. Franklin Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley got together for a hasty conference. But such...