Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. So long as capital flowed to the U. S. in the form of gold Secretary Morgenthau did not have to worry about keeping the exchange value of the dollar down. But he was well aware that if France, frightened by the gold exodus, put an embargo on gold exports he would have to use his exchange fund to sell dollars. How many hundreds of millions of dollars he might have to sell to keep the dollar down no one knew...
...absence of uniform literary merit calls forth neither surprise nor complaint. Side by side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys on the Baltic ice, wolves, and various other escapes...
...London, the Daily Express, which last summer protested what it called exaggerated reports in the U. S. Press of London's unemployment riots, last week printed a cable from New York: "A great exodus of Negroes from the towns and villages of America's race-prejudiced Southern States began today. Terrified by the outbreak of lynching following the condonation of mob violence by Governor Rolph of California, America's vast population of colored folk are hurriedly leaving their homes and setting off in their second-hand cars and old farm wagons for-they know not where...
...when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) Then Moses . . . said, Who is on the Lord's side? . .. -Exodus, 32: 25-26. And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing. ... - Leviticus, 20: 17. I counsel thee to buy . . . white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear. . . . -Revelation, 3: 18. In the Bible there...
...imposts, were going swiftly ahead with their plans to move across the Hudson River to tax-free Jersey City and Newark. Carpenters and electricians were working overtime to make ready Newark's Centre Market as the Stock Exchange's main trading floor. Upon the brokers' exodus, the State would stand to lose perhaps $30,000,000 in annual taxes. Worse, the bankers were wringing their hands over what would happen to downtown realty values. The grass that Herbert Hoover had predicted under a Democratic Administration could now almost be seen sprouting in Wall Street...