Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerning the size of their loans and investments themselves affect the volume of credit currency outstanding and with it raise the price level. On the surface, to an observer who sees from day to day only the disjointed and apparently unpredictable actions of the Administration, the whole experiment is apt to appear as the muddled meddling of a happy-go-lucky opportunist whose disturbing though well meant efforts are proving more a hindrance than a help to recovery...
When a Freshman arrives at Harvard, he is apt to be rather puzzled at the status which the Cooperative Society occupies in college life. To find a store which does not include profit-making in its motives except for its customers and which includes members of the Faculty and undergraduates on its board of directors is an unusual experiment. And yet again this year the Coop announces a profit of $56,000 which it will distribute to those persons who have used their services...
...explain and justify the Roosevelt experiment and to show how, if steadfastly pursued, it is bound to reach a successful conclusion." Major Angas admits that "to an observer who sees from day to day only the disjointed and apparently unpredictable actions of the Administration, the whole experiment is apt to appear as the muddled meddling of a happy-go-lucky opportunist. . . ." But he believes there is an underlying theme which is "clear, consistent and fundamentally sound." That theme, says Major Angas. is monetary?simply "Reflate, then stabilize...
...Leland Studios Inc. of Manhattan who erected the $300,000 William Rockefeller mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. Most big firms do their work on contract, employ their own designers. Architect Raymond Mathewson Hood who died last week (see p. 28) once worked for Presbrey-Leland. The bigger firms are apt to buy their materials from manufacturers like Rock of Ages of Barre, Vt., J. D. Sargent Co. of Mt. Airy, N. C., Georgia Marble Co. of Tate, Jones Bros. Co. of Boston, Smith Granite Co. of Westerly, R. I. who supplied the pink-white granite for Calvin Coolidge...
...Mussolini cynicisms seriously. Last week they produced as an example of Fascist freedom of the Press an article by Air Marshal Italo Balbo criticizing plans to subordinate the Air Force to the Army and Navy-plans reputedly favored by II Duce. Actually the appearance of such an article is apt to be a signal that the Dictator has changed his mind upon the point in question. It was small proof of freedom of the Press that Marshal Balbo was able to get on the front page of Air Minister Benito Mussolini's official service organ last week the following...