Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...views presented here are to prevail, this country is nearing the brink of absolute wreckage. If it be admitted for a moment that private contracts may be abrogated by a law of Congress or if the creditors may have their property confiscated by taxation, that would simply abrogate contractual relations in this country and there would be no more of them...
...cost of conquering Manchuria, turning it into "Independent Manchukuo," and the constantly increasing cost of policing Japan's puppet state have brought the Empire to a fiscal brink. Next year's budget is to balance at the largest figure in the history of Japan-the fantastic sum of 2,239,000,000 yen ($1,119,500,000 at par, $470,019,000 at current exchange). So much money cannot be raised by taxation. It is to be raised by what will amount to forced internal loans with consequent inflation and further depreciation of the yen. Clearly the only...
...nine days in the grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House, 1.500 representatives of 21 standard railway unions and a committee of nine managers representing 210 Class 1 U. S. roads stubbornly locked horns over the matter of railroad wages. Time after time the conference was on the brink of rupture...
...explaining the custom of "plucking," but the Vagabond heard not. Somewhere in the vague hinterland beyond the anti-macasser and the cupped ear was a rocking chair. The distance, he remembers, was not great, nor for that matter was the "Half a league Onward," up on the thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond...
Record. The first session of the 72nd Congress had been full of political bluster and bustle but behind the noise was plenty of substantial accomplishment. President Hoover got all he could reasonably expect from a divided Congress on the brink of a national election. His program for bolstering the sagging body economic of the nation was enacted. A variety of measures obnoxious to him were left to die. Between them, the President and the Congress made the following record...