Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Round No. 2 amounted to an about face in the Treasury's recent credit policies, which helped bring on the Depression. A year ago when Government's prime concern was not Depression but a runaway boom, the Federal Reserve Board boosted bank reserve requirements. This cut down the total of potential credit in the form of excess bank reserves and made money a little more expensive to borrow. Last week the President told Congress it was now time to lower reserve requirements-which the Reserve Board did forthwith. Net effect of lowering reserve requirements was to increase excess...
Tonight at 8 o'clock in the Leverett House Common Room, the Bunnies' Glee Club under the baton of George W. Phillips '39 will present a joint spring concern with the Boston Junior League which is directed by Mrs. Herbert Harris. The concert will follow the House dinner for the month of April...
...ventured. To many an economist this seemed the surest possible way of offering capital the fullest inducement to get busy and help itself out of the current depression. That the tax reforms crossed the Administration's three-year policy was a matter which did not seem greatly to concern Congress...
...since 1928, a real and resounding issue. Whether it is lively enough to capitalize it remains to be seen but at least the party which last year looked as though it were hunting for the legendary valley where elephants trudge to die was once more very much a going concern. Its headquarters last week were not the Program Committee's offices in Chicago but the busy suite in Washington's National Press Club Building, where the staff of Practical Politician Joe Martin's Republican Congressional Committee was figuring out ways and means to round up votes...
When a President whose good humor is normally as unflagging as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's exhibits the least touch of snappishness, it is major news. Last week, reporters lost no time in guessing that Franklin Roosevelt had finally stopped trying to conceal his serious concern about Depression. Right or wrong, the reporters' guess was reasonable. The Gainesville speech had touched off a selling wave that sent the stock market to new lows. Other business indices showed few signs of improvement...