Word: afoot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amount to less than $40,000,000. That much new money would be less than half the amount added to circulation in the week before Christmas, all in the ordinary course of Federal Reserve's operations. So direct inflationary effect would be trifling compared to other measures now afoot...
...committee of students stung by the reproach of your editorial of the fourteenth, has set afoot plans for bringing German films to Harvard. This group, though admitting that the Harvard undergraduate is "tatlos, wenn er denkt," has takes good care that he shall not be "blind, wenn er handelt," by securing the aid of a diligent and experienced patroness, and by investigating carefully the requirements of the undertaking...
Movements are already afoot it is understood to make another attempt for state or federal and by putting through the legislature a bill providing for financing and erection of the bridge and the accompanying plan of moving the Charles river to facilitate the construction of the span and easo traffic conditions...
...President have to make, for his advisers were drawn in different directions.* He well knew that Harvard Professor O. M. W. Sprague, onetime adviser to the Bank of England who had come over last spring to act as his adviser, was considering resigning as a protest against the policies afoot, that financiers in London were accusing him of "playing a gigantic poker game" with the dollar; that in Paris famed Economist Frederic Jenny was prophesying, "Not far distant is the fatal moment when Mr. Roosevelt will be faced with the dilemma of chaotic inflation or a return to dollar stability...
...inter-House action, except in the case of Adams and Dunster which have separate kitchens. The others must have a group arrangement for cooking and service, unless the Comptroller's office loses its ancient inflexibility far enough to smile upon an uneconomic project. If group action were set afoot to put the evening mealtime forward, and a minority blocked the way, it would be right and necessary to overrule the wishes of the minority in favor of the far greater number. Even to the few, no great inconvenience would result from such a change: dinner at six allows enough time...