Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point. He apparently felt, in writing the articles, that when the effort to raise internal prices by exchange depreciation was seen to be unsuccessful, the Administration would resort to the issue of paper currency. Or if not this, at least that the fear of such inflationary measures, leading to distrust of the currency, would be sufficient to cause business men to delay commitments, banks to fear withdrawals, and the public generally to steer clear of bonds, especially government bonds. The whole question of whether paper currency inflation, once started, could be controlled, has been returned to the realm of theory...
...significant to note that, since 1929, the trade of the United States with South America has declined 82 per cent, whilst the total foreign trade went down only 69 per cent. This starting decrease is due in part to a not unjustified distrust of this country as the "Colossus of the North," but it can also be attributed to sober economic causes. Constantly rising tariff walls, some necessary for the protection of United States industry and some purely arbitrary, have served to shunt an unwonted amount of Latin American commerce into European ports. The present difficulty of getting foreign monetary...
Churchmen who distrust Broadway and deplore the crassness of the U. S. theatre have never found anything to complain about in Playwright Channing Pollock. Especially to their taste is his famed play The Fool, which deals earnestly with a modern clergyman who tried to act like Christ. When Playwright Pollock first got The Fool produced in 1922, critics were not impressed. For three weeks it looked like a failure. Then it found its public, ran for a year on Broadway. Five road companies played it throughout the U. S. for three years. The Fool was translated and performed in every...
...cautious Vermonter takes a time-honored out unusual means of making sure that his bride will not bring him a dowry of debt. A Maine farmer and his wife, who distrust foreigners anyway, are made extremely nervous by the uproarious goings-on of the Swedes across the road, (This story, "Country Full of Swedes," fortnight ago was awarded the 1933 Yale Review prize...
...president suggested an interesting comparison between his own field and business administration. Chemistry, as a practical profession, evolved from alchemy only when the chemist Boyle wrote a book revealing the known facts candidly and ridiculing the veil of secrecy which had caused distrust of the whole science. "At present," said President Conant, "we are lifting the veil from the field of business and economics and it too is emerging as a highly useful profession...