Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In March 1933, when Moody's spot commodity price index stood at 88, Franklin Roosevelt announced that commodity prices should go up. By March 1937, they had reached 220 on Moody's Index. Then Franklin Roosevelt announced that commodity prices were too high, thereby touched off a world...
These remarks brought to light a behind-the-scenes fight between Mr. Eccles and the Treasury. The Federal Reserve Chairman would relax restrictions on bank investments and use bank regulations and examinations as the Federal Reserve uses its reserve requirements: loosen them in depressions, tighten them in booms. Stoutly opposed...
Today's leaders of education have dealt thoroughly with the problems of who should be admitted to our universities and what they should be taught, but little attention has been paid the perplexing situation which faces almost every student upon graduation. If educators are interested in the implanting of aim...
A British commission, under Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, came home from Berlin last week to report that the only payment the Reich will consider is one in goods. His Majesty's Government met further rebuff with a German reminder that...
To consider how to increase bond-trading on the floor of the Exchange, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas last week sat down with a round table of Exchange members, potent Wall Street investment bankers and representatives of the big insurance companies. Ideas broached to aid the Exchange included: 1) lowering...