Word: crux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obviously just his anger in the crux of the matter when he says concerning the attempt to increase purchasing power; "Such an increase is obviously not a means of bringing about recovery; it is recovery itself. What we have to do is to consider the effectiveness of other means to this end." The discussion which follows though by no means exhaustive, makes a number of valuable distinctions and brings such neglected elements of the problem to the fore as the simple fact that not only wage earners but also farmers, dividend receivers, business managers, and so on are consumers, that...
...representing their respective Houses. If the University is to be consistent in its policy of giving to the Houses a certain measure of autonomy, it surely cannot persist in regarding what is purely a House team, chosen through intramural competition, as a University team. This is, in fact, the crux of the matter, and once University Hall confesses to this attitude the whole business can be left to the Houses where it properly belongs. Inasmuch as the House Masters have expressed their willingness to permit men on probation to play in the Yale game, the problem would then be settled...
...that's the crux of the present effort to increase purchasing power and stimulate economic recovery. Congress thought that by spending three billion dollars on public works, the employment problem would be solved but the Government cannot throw its money away on projects that are uneconomic or futile. Try as they do every day to find good ways of spending money, the Government officials have not yet authorized the expenditure of more than half of the public works program. And simply authorizing the spending does not mean that it will get money into circulation right away. For blue prints have...
...that invitation lies the crux of the whole matter. Unless Washington or Moscow (preferably both) cooperates with League States not only in words but in actions designed to make Japan mind the League, there is every likelihood that Manchuria will become a second Vilna...
...multiplied absolutely and relatively with the expansion of industry. There is not a single honest commodity, whether a necessity of life, a comfort or a luxury, of which enough is produced to supply the living need. But need and purchasing power have not kept pace with each other. . . . The crux of the situation . . . lies in the fact that things are produced to be sold at a profit to people who want them but do not receive enough wages to pay for them." Kallen backs no panaceas, names no dark horses, urges U. S. Individualists to devise a social plan...