Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successfully used to bargain for better trade opportunities and arms cuts? If the U. S. insisted on full payment of political debts, would U. S. private debts abroad be imperiled? Such were some of the questions of the Hoover-Roosevelt conference. Any decision reached at the White House was worthless without the concurrence of Congress, and Congress seemed to have made up its mind firmly against any leniency toward Debtor Europe. President Hoover was informed by long-eared Senator Reed of Pennsylvania: "I've not found a single member of Congress who will vote for a suspension of debt...
Will you kindly inform your readers how many millions of dogs there are in the U. S.? Also make a suggestion as to the saving that could be effected during this depression by dispensing with a certain percentage of worthless and vicious curs? Why should dogs dispute for food with babies during the coining winter? I know that breeding dogs for profit is a highly commercialized, if somewhat disgusting, branch of our economic system, and that we must not step too harshly upon the dog industry: but it does seem as if something could be proposed at this opportune time...
...excessive." At first Dr. Bracht was understood to mean that evening gowns could be cut only a trifle less than shoulder high. In desperation Berlin and other Prussian shopkeepers waited upon the style dictator, told him that almost their whole stock of women's evening gowns would be rendered worthless by his decree. These gowns, the merchants hotly protested, were "decent." Did Dr. Bracht want to see them on the backs of mannequins? ( Dr. Bracht saw that he must avoid making himself ridiculous. Declining the mannequin parade, he announced a "liberal'' interpretation of his decree. Gowns could...
...plot is worthless burlesque, & hopeless melange of the worst features of the worst detective "thrillers" that the cinema has produced. Professor Moriarty is there, but dull, asthmatic, licking his stupid Bapsburg chops Swearing revenge, the renovated Professor escapes from prison. One is not sure of the method, but there is a tumult of sirens, of whistles, of confused turnkeys slithering over smooth cement floors, of dead ones breathing heartily, hanging stiffly on steel staircases, & splendid tumult to make audiences forgive and forget. The rest is too much. There is a conglomeration of leers pineapples, cockney, forgeries, subway tunnels into bank...
...with the current Depression than "the wars of the Phoenicians or the conquest of Gaul by Caesar." Republican administrations, he declared, encouraged an "orgy of stock speculation" and President Coolidge "figuratively jumped into the stockpit and cheered on the gamblers." Billions of dollars of foreign securities "now practically worthless" were dumped on the U. S. market. The State Department "without sanction of law" usurped the function of passing on these loans and was therefore "implicated" in the disaster. When the Senate unanimously ordered it to desist as financial censor, Secretary Stimson brushed aside the order "with a contempt that entitled...