Word: apologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individuals are assiduously practicing thrift, economy and budget-balancing, that is precisely the time for the Government to go into debt for compensatory public spending. Of course, this was the underlying fiscal philosophy of the whole New Deal, and Mr. Eccles came to be rated the arch-apologist of spending. Last week Mr. Eccles suddenly reversed his economic field, to the shocked surprise of all but a few who had not forgotten his oft-made point that his theory worked also vice versa...
These two gentlemen are likely to receive much more sympathetic treatment from the outspoken Texan. Unorthodox themselves, they may even find a kindred spirit in their unorthodox apologist. Come, you vagabonds, come to study the Cowboy Professor. You are guaranteed to hear shrewd perception of literary values which the spontaneous language delightfully accentuates...
...fame and fortune Goldman Sachs reached an unenviable peak in 1929 under the domination of Waddill Catchings, leading apologist of the New Era, co-author of The Road to Plenty. It was the imperious Mr. Catchings who led the conservative old house into the investment trust fireworks of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Shenandoah Corp. and Blue Ridge Corp. When his road to plenty ran up a tree, Mr. Catchings got out, joining his old friend, Utilitarian Harrison Williams...
...Prohibited by State laws from incurring any debt whatsoever, he has, therefore, "balanced the budget" there:--that is if one passes quickly over the matter of $400,000,000 worth of Federal relief funds poured into Kansas. As was admitted last week by William Allen White, Landon's chief apologist, the state ranks 48th out of 48 in regard to State help for State schools, a situation which may in part explain Kansas' miserable record in the matter of education...
...Hepatica and four out of five of all the best-publicized drugs in the U. S. medicine cabinet last week congregated in Manhattan for an evangelical meeting of the Proprietary Association. This organization, headed for 22 years by Castoria's Frank Anthony Blair, is spokesman, defender and apologist for an industry which annually makes and sells $300,000,000 worth of medicines, antiseptics, and hygienic supplies...