Word: bolsterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misapplication of Guardian's funds, and ten charges of false entry to cover up the misapplication. Question was whether Banker House had acted in good faith when, a scant 18 months after his Washington appointment, he had dipped into his bank's pension fund for money to bolster Guardian stock in a ''distress" market. Prosecution claimed that he had not, that the transaction was illegal, that Banker House had acted to save his own 1,500 shares. After three hours deliberation the jury agreed with the people, found Banker House guilty on all 26 counts. Between...
...recently the trend has changed so that nearly as many Andover men are going to Harvard as to Yale. These transfers are Andover men, and we have decided that this stunt was all planned out last year by Yale authorities trying to lure Harvard men to Yale and bolster that rapidly declining institution...
...side glances of horror possibly at Huitzilopochtli, the war god . . . is probably one of the most amazing if not amusing spectacles ever presented to American college life. . . But all this is a thing apart from the main satire in which Quetzalcoatl's divine attributes by contrast are used to bolster up a crude pictorial misrepresentation of academic education in America as 'a sterile ritual of dead things giving birth to dead things...
Corey starts out with the present "Crisis," in the face of which he finds what he calls "Niraism" (the New Deal) helpless and meaningless except insofar as it serves to call in the State to bolster up a sagging economic order. Working backward, he considers the "Golden Age" which he insists was by no means everybody's boom. Farmers were excluded and "real" wages remained practically stationary by holding their own with rising prices, no more. But profits increased enormously. These profits were appropriated by "the owners of the means of production" and since they could not be "consumed...
...melon-cutting may be forever denied them. Last week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins arrived in Washington full of ideas for cutting new melons for the unemployed. Before he left for Paris he struck a reassuring note by declaring: "The Administration is making an honest and a sincere effort to bolster up capitalism...