Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...putting forth his own suggestions, Professor Sprague is entitled to more attention. The two things required to stimulate trade, he says, are that the banks should be in a secure enough position to lend and that there should arise a sufficient demand from borrowers. Barring an extensive program of public works, this is true. He goes on to point out that one of the chief reasons for the failure of demand for industrial loans is that potential consumer demand has been stifled by unreasonably high prices, as for steel and building materials. His complaint here, and it is a very...
...banks as payment for their gold. Not intended for public circulation, each certificate had a bright yellow back and bore the words "This is to certify that there is on deposit in the Treasury of the United States of America (so many) dollars in gold, payable to bearer on demand as authorized by law." But as the law prohibited the Treasury from paying out gold dollars and as the value of the gold in each dollar was still subject to presidential juggling, the certificates were worth nothing more than bookkeeping receipts...
This was the substance of the report on Norfolk submitted January 24 by W. Cameron Forbes, former Governor of the Philippines, and recently Ambassador to Japan. The report was requested by Governor Ely in deference to a popular demand for an investigation of Norfolk by an impartial authority, at the time when Auditor Hurley's investigation was daily front page news, and public opinion had been aroused by the sensational character of his disclosures. In appointing Mr. Forbes, Governor Ely repeated the injunction against premature publicity which he had made to Auditor Hurley, and which had been violated. Accordingly...
...Should Ladies Behave" screen adaptation of that popular comedy, "The Vinegar Tree" that it is line with the recently surging public demand for film invoicing country houses with a great deal of white wainscote and Alice Brads. Unlike its predecessors in the field it is not graced by the presence of Myrna Loy and Ana Harding; this even if you like the acting of that pair, is a fortunate thing, lending variety...
...bankers, if they are to finance huge private enterprises, will have to make up their minds sooner or later to accept interest on a permanent debt, which Mr. Insull could have paid, and to give up their custom of demanding the principal of that debt at a time when Mr. Insull or no one else can pay it. The effort to put teeth into their demand has the predictable result: enterprises which they do not know how to manage are dumped into their hands. This has happened, in its most concentrated form, to the most concentrated of our financial operators...