Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always been the policy of this government not to interfere in the local and internal affairs of any of the people who happen to be under our flag, but certainly so flagrant a case as this which apparently is receiving no remedy in that island, makes us question the worth of American institutions as being adapted to the people of Puerto Rico and to the conditions under which they live...
...freedom. Puerto Rican Senator Luis Muñoz Marin, a leader of the Liberal Party, was in Washington when the surprise struck. Cried he angrily: "It provides for ruining the people of Puerto Rico entirely before the date set for the beginning of the independence. . . . The bill is not worth being taken seriously, either by Puerto Ricans or continental Americans. A bill worthy of consideration would have to determine a relationship whereby Puerto Rican consumers could buy first from Puerto Rican producers, second from the United States producers...
...Enemy No. 1. By last week the Bureau of Investigation, which has vainly trailed Public Enemy Alvin Karpis for two years, acknowledged that his nickname was no misnomer by slapping a $5,000 price on his head. Only the lives of Nelson and the late John Dillinger had been worth such public rewards to the Federal Government...
Last month Pickford-Lasky applied to Washington for permission. to offer two million dollars worth of stock in their new company. They have two stars under contract (Francis Lederer and Nino Martini) plan four more pictures this year...
...education: what soldiering he did was a holiday task. One summer he marched with his father and two brothers to Ticonderoga to help repel Burgoyne's invasion, was too late to see any fighting. After his graduation his father gave him an eight-dollar Continental bill (worth about two in silver) and sent him out to make his own way. He taught school, studied law, sashayed into Hartford society-where his Yankee angularity drew down pert feminine comments: "His reflections are as prosy as those of our horse. . . . In conversation he is even duller than in writing, if that...