Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Grover Moscowitz opined: "If the bank chose to select as its president a man who was dishonest and a thief, that is not Dr. Butler's fault." He ordered the securities returned. A speech to the Massachusetts Civic League by Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
Following a conference with his economic encourage, the President has announced that the government will enter the European market for gold. Although this should have been obvious to all who had examined the basis of his program for the commodity dollar, Wall Street chose to pull a face long enough to upset the day's trading and between the money changer and the moneychanger an unpleasant altercation threatens to develop. More significant than this, however, is the effect which the President's action must have on the growing tide of economic nationalism. A frank and cynical attempt by a great...
Attorneys for the roads held a joint meeting, found that if they obeyed Governor Langer's order they would run afoul of the Interstate Commerce Act. Yet Governor Langer's militia was mobilized, prepared to stop grain shipments with bayonets if necessary. The roads chose to be impaled on the Governor's embargo rather than on the Federal law. They jointly informed the Governor that they would have to accept wheat for shipment, although they "realized the paramount necessity of higher grain prices for our farmers." The roads hoped that "if the people of North Dakota obey...
...chose to sell bonds. People will not buy bonds (or exchange bonds soon to be paid off for new long-term bonds) unless they have confidence in the value of the dollar. The implication of the offering was obvious: radical currency inflation has been put off at least until April 15. Paper Panic. Many a sound money man breathed easier. No confidence have financiers in "controlled" inflation of the currency. In spite of the dollar being off gold and selling at 60-odd in international exchange, the dollar is still a dollar to John Citizen, is still backed by perfectly...
...price would nevertheless be stabilized within narrow limits. So that a store's stocks might not become frozen through the operation of this provision, bona fide clearance sales, disposal of perishable goods and discontinued lines, genuine liquidation, were permitted at any prices a merchant chose...