Word: downward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bureau of Census last week observed that the mortality rate has declined in 85 large cities below the rate of last year-from 135 per 10,000 to 124 per 10,000. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service, when he noted this downward drift in the statistics last year, indicated to President Hoover that it was due to frugality and temperance in Depression...
...Governors assembled in the long narrow board room opening upon the grimy interior court of the Treasury building. Around its brownish-yellow walls hung many a chart, their graphs ending in dismal downward dips. (Zigzags were all in black & white because color-blind Governor Meyer has trouble with reds and greens.) After handshakes all around, the Board and its visiting officials settled down in black leather swivel chairs around a long mahogany table for an all-day session...
...result of this policy the prestige of the Council has followed a downward path during the past year. Too often its decisions have been instigated by direct suggestions from the College office. Seldom if ever has any constructive work been carried on by the Council's initiative. The general tone has been that the Council is responsible to the officers of the University, and not to the student body...
...President Hoover summoned Messrs. Glass and Steagall. Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve, Secretary of the Treasury Mills, President Dawes of Reconstruction Finance Corp. were called in. President Hoover explained the desperate plight of the nation's banks and the psychological failure of other relief plans to arrest the downward plunge of deflation. Heavy Federal financing to meet the Deficit (see col. 3) was ahead. Drastic action must be taken. Messrs. Meyer, Mills and Dawes nodded their heads in agreement. Gradually Senator Glass's opposition to opening the Federal Reserve to larger bank borrowings was beaten down by facts...
...sworn in until two executive sessions of the Senate have taken place after his confirmation, was waived. President Dawes and his board rolled up their sleeves and started to work. Applications to share the $2,000,000,000 credit fund, with which the Administration hopes to check the downward spiral of deflation, poured into the Treasury offices. There they were sifted by a clerical staff, prepared for study by the R. F. C. directorate, which hoped to make the first loan from new offices in the old Department of Commerce Building by the end of this week...