Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kind word for nature's method of crop re- duction," observed Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to an audience of North Dakota farmers at Bismarck. "Man's methods may be full of imperfections . . . but they are perfection itself by comparison. . . ." The rainfall in the Midwest did not deter President Roosevelt in Washington from sending Congress a special message asking for $525,0.00,000 worth of "large-scale assistance" to be parcelled out as follows: 1) $125,000,000 to give farmers without fields work on roads, public buildings, wells. 2) $75,000,000 to buy half-starved live stock...
...Central Committee presents another problem demanding adjustment. Last year two or three Houses received far more applications than they could handle, and when it developed that the Masters were unable to arrange an equitable distribution among themselves the Committee was created. Its raison deter is thus a lack of agreement between the Masters, many of whom now protest that they have not sufficient freedom of choice. Ideally, the Central Committee should be abolished, but since this is apparently impractical, human nature being what it is, the Committee's function should be merely that of a referee board. It should draw...
...fact" in connection with a registration statement is a criminal offense. No court has yet defined a "material fact," but last week in a lengthy ruling the Federal Trade Commission declared that a material fact was "a fact which if it had been correctly stated or disclosed would have deterred or tended to deter the average prudent investor from purchasing the securities in question...
...maws of the Big Navy clique, to which unfortunately, the President lends the full weight of his power. They demanded that the navy be built up to the top strength of the Washington Treaty 5-5-3 ratio. The terriffic cost, from 750 million to a billion, did not deter them; the Vinson Bill was formulated and favorably double-checked by Congress...
...Deter him it did not. Having listened to testimony from both sides for two days the bald, keen-eyed judge squared off with a spontaneous oral opinion which lasted five hours. Excerpts: "Now if this agricultural act, this AAA or QYZ or whatever it is-I cannot remember those names-is constitutional, if they are not invading the rights of private citizens, why, of course, they have the right to go on. If it is not constitutional and if it is a usurpation of power, then a citizen has a right . . . to ask the court to tell these gentlemen...