Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislation while they "explained" their aims to the Senate and nation. Senator Pittman, an Administration man in most things, gave Secretary Morgenthau a ferocious wigging for not telling the President about the plight of 318,000 Westerners who (Pittman said), dependent on silver production & processing, were thrown out of work when the Treasury lowered its silver subsidy price from 77.57? per oz. to 64.64?. Senator Pittman demanded $1.29 per oz., which he called "normal...
...Just a few weeks prior, the gaunt, grey doctor had at last driven his Plan to a vote in Congress, had seen it overwhelmed 302-to-97 (TIME, June 12). He now offered his followers to resign as their leader "when you find a superman* to take over the work...
...appropriation bill, as sent up by the House to the Senate last fortnight (TIME, June 26), discontinued work relief for employes in the Federal Theatre Project, for reasons of unnecessity, inefficiency, immorality and Communism. The same bill last week provided Congressmen with relief from their work. Into Washington swept throbbing, throaty Actress Tallulah Bankhead (The Little Foxes), chosen by FTP's friends to lobby for it because her Uncle John is Alabama's senior Senator, her father Speaker of the House...
...prepared statement. "Go slower, Tallulah," whispered her father, who sat in as coach (and whom she also hugged for cameras). But she raced on with her arguments-that the theatre should be helped because it yields a 10% Federal tax on its admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows to relieve the distress of others. At her conclusion Miss Bankhead broke into tears. Next day she sent the committee a vast basket of roses...
...this week finished widening the main street of Forest Hills, L. I., home of U. S. championship tennis. So surprised, pleased, grateful were 125 merchants by the speed and skill with which the work was done, that they invited the 100-odd workers to eat cold cuts, drink beer at a local roof garden...