Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Similarly cautious optimism was the most that other indicators offered last week. The war scare depressed stock prices but not severely, and volume of selling was light. Demand deposits in Federal Reserve Member banks were near the peak set at the end of 1936 but the turnover (ratio of checks drawn to deposits) was at low ebb, 11% under the norm for 1935~37. Power output rose to a new 1938 high, General Motors recalled 24,000 men to its Flint plants, and department-store sales all over the nation were off only 3% from the same week a year...
...left only two economists, Adolf A. Berle Jr. (who resigned last fortnight†) and Leon Henderson, now attached to the Monopoly Investigation, member of the commission whose report last week on consumer incomes (see p. 59) is red-hot campaign ammunition. Only other original close adviser left was politically cautious Postmaster General Jim Farley. He distrusted the Purge idea. When that idea had taken root in the President's imagination, the Janizaries dominated the 1938 campaign...
...Congressman, full of sound & fury, tells the home folks what he is going to do at the next session. Often his remarks are for political drama and home consumption only. It is otherwise with Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the potent Senate Finance Committee. Usually cautious about what he says, he usually means it when he says it. Last week at a meeting of the Democratic State Committee in Jackson. Miss., he spoke. His flat announcement...
Hopkins. The dullest of the quartet, "Uncle" Mark Hopkins was the only one who weighed less than 200 lb. Thin, worried, cautious, lazy, stubborn, plaintive, he ate little meat, drank no liquor and, even as a wealthy man, grew vegetables for his own table, selling the surplus. When he planned a quiet cottage on Nob Hill, his fun-loving wife, who greatly admired the romantic novels of Ouida, took over the planning of it, turned it into a huge mass of towers, gables, and steeples, with a dining room to seat 60 guests, a bedroom inlaid with ivory, ebony...
Naturally the Japanese were cautious about the colleges owned or supported by foreigners. But it is not easy for aviators to be sure where their bombs will land. No more easy, therefore, was continuance of sessions at such universities as Nanking and Ginling, in the heart of bomb-riddled Nanking. Nanking University's compound began to be rocked with dugouts and shell holes. Five of the 13 colleges were obliged to move kit & boodle inland, at great expense. Yet all 13 completed the year's work. Moreover, they carried on two extraordinary extracurricular activities...