Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best answer to these warnings is that whatever Administration is in power for the next few years will use its best efforts to keep money cheap. And this argument is used by both commercial bankers, who are buying Government bonds because they can find no other outlet for their funds, and by investment bankers, who would like to see a cheap money era prolonged because it makes for a good bond market. Long periods of cheap money are not unprecedented. For 23 years from 1886 to 1909 British Government consols, a taxable security, never sold to yield more than...
...decided to sell during a national boom, when interest rates are generally high, bond prices low. Investment bankers are thinking about that type of investor already. Fortnight ago in Manhattan, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s Hugh Knowlton wound up a speech to the Financial Advertisers with a highly logical argument for future use. This smart, sharp-nosed young banker, who was trained in the law and got into finance by way of Paul Warburg's International Acceptance Bank, declared...
...states. Even Mr. Hoover did not dare come out against minimum-wage and maximum hour laws, but merely said that the Constitution reserved such powers to the states. Mr. Hoover may have been narrow-minded and behind the times, but he was not inhuman, and to many people his argument had a great deal of logic. In the face of this decision such a clear-cut alternative is definitely out of the question. What was forbidden Congress so recently in the Guffey case is now denied the individual states with equal force...
...settle an argument, will you please let me know the make of this automobile? I hesitate to bother the Senator at this critical time and Mrs. Borah is not sure of the answer...
Born in Pontiac, Ill., 58 years ago, Metalman Marsh began fiddling with chemistry in a woodshed. Quitting the University of Illinois after an argument with his chemistry professor, he worked with the State Water Survey Office testing Illinois River water, later with Chicago Storage Battery Co., where he became interested in the heat resistant qualities of metal conductors. William Hoskins, a consulting chemist, let Marsh use his lab oratory after work to tinker with alloys, later took him into the firm of Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace...