Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painted on the ceiling was fixed upon the grey Hoover head as it bent to its task. Around the mosaic floor stood Senators, Representatives, Cabinet members, military aides, clerks and bodyguards silently watching the 31st President perform his final duty, wind up an era...
...confidence in their banks, and to achieve that, the banks must thaw out their assets. A general rise in prices would, of course, stop the depression right here, but that will not come for some time. We are now, and for some time will be, living in an era of low prices. The biggest obstacle to a general rise in prices is Russia, which is capable of selling wheat and oil with out regard to the cost of production...
...which every banking institution in the country must become a member. Either the government is to enter directly into business, or it must exercise a very minute and comprehensive authority over corporations which have hitherto grossly abused their great power. But whatever solution is put into effect, the era of incompetent and irresponsible banking, banking that exists in so many cases for the maximum of private gain and the minimum of public good must be forcibly brought to a close...
Even accepting the philosophy of the new era and granting that the increased Freshman application may be permanent, the desirability of enlarging the College is very doubtful. To cry mass production would be unfair but it may be pointed out that the College's first concern should be to raise the standard rather than the number of those admitted. The existence of a larger surplus of applicants offers a solendid opportunity for greater discrimination, and surely the University is under no moral obligation to admit all who satisfy the existing requirements...
From Mr. Prince's particular point of view, the conclusion that the college teacher represents a fair weather claque may well seem irresistible. He has probably grown a little weary of complacent rationalizations after 1929 from those who were once very prone to accept the new era without a second thought. But this does not change, although it may modify the fact that his own position is similarly untenable. For he does not distinguish with sufficient precision the real and fundamental position of the college professor...