Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Vinson had promised that there would be no whitewash-and no fishing expeditions either. "I didn't catch the question," Vinson remarked blandly when one witness began to wander. "I was smoking a cigar...
...professors of the "dismal science" have always scotched this sunny Stevenson couplet. To such economists as Thomas Robert Malthus and John Stuart Mill in the 19th Century and John Maynard Keynes in the 20th, the world did not seem so full. Any economic system, said the Mill school, would either become static or it would fail to provide for its own. Lesser Cassandras, including New Dealers, have foretold the depletion of the world's oil and coal reserves, the exhaustion of soils, have pronounced the U.S. economy to be "mature," i.e., incapable of further expansion. Most of these experts...
...week, Munich's 3,400 Jews felt fresh vitriol in their old wounds. A letter to the editor, signed with the pseudonym "Adolf Bleibtreu" (Stay True to Adolf), screamed at the Jews: "Go ahead and go to America, even though the people there have no use for you either. They have had enough of you bloodsuckers. Several of the Amis [slang for Americans] have already told me they forgive us for everything except one thing: that we did not gas all the Jews, for many are now enjoying life in America...
...appointed McCabe, has done plenty of talking about raising taxes, the FRB chairman's remedy was just the opposite. The big trouble now, said Tom McCabe, was that there was a great shortage of risk capital, although "such risk taking has long been an American tradition." Businessmen either did not have the cash or found investment too risky in the face of high taxes. The thing to do, he said, was to ease taxes on business and businessmen. McCabe recommended that Congress study the entire tax structure, and consider such changes...
...could not "hazard a guess as to the entire extent of fraud and overpayment" in some $300 billion of war contracts. Even so, it was "a shocking situation." In some instances, said Warren, 20% of the contract price had been 'kicked back" to Government officials, 'either directly, through their relatives, or through dummy corporations" owned by the Government officials. Other sample cases...