Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even President Roosevelt, at a press conference, deplored the "patriotism and ethics" of a G-Man who would retire from the service to cash in on his country's secrets, declared the Army & Navy should get more money to spy on spies...
...squiggles which he made precipitated, not an immediate downpour of cash upon the parched populace, but a flood of mimeographed announcements by his spending agencies in Washington, vying with each other to do their heavenly duty...
...Cash is still abundant: Last week: 'Joe Louis fights for $900,000 gate...
...with 65. What riled Brooklynites was the fact that Johnny Vander Meer had once been in the Dodgers training camp but they had let him go to Scranton. It was Larry MacPhail who had the foresight to buy him from Nashville in the summer of 1936 (for $17,500 cash and one player) after the wild young lefthander had been turned down by the Yankees, Red Sox and Giants...
...thus the first U. S. example of 100% money banking-a principle advocated by Yale's Professor Irving Fisher because it eliminates the dangers of bank runs since all deposits are kept liquid and because it restrains credit inflation since loans are not pyramided against depositors' cash...