Word: expection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Youth: ". . . A Government that does not constantly seek to live up to the ideals of its young men and women falls short of what the American people have a right to expect and demand from...
...further, these increases occur, in spite of the fact that the War caused public debt has decreased, thereby reducing interest, which is the biggest single annual expense. The conclusion seen in all this by financially minded Republican Senator Reed Smoot is that the U. S. must hereafter expect the cost of government to increase. The "low" of 1925-26 ($3,105,517,645) may be a "low" for all time hereafter...
...your own kindling, and your quarrel is really with your own 'record' and not with those of us who, for the sake of the Republic we love, have dared to warn the people about it as an indication of the type of President we may expect if you should by any unhappy chance be sent to the White House...
Memorable was the July 19 balance sheet of the Bancitaly Corp., showing six months' earnings of $35,233,552, more than Bancitaly has ever earned in a full year. Holders of Bancitaly's 5,200,000 outstanding shares may expect, if the same level is maintained until January, that the corporation will have earned $13 on each share, twelve percent on the present market price...
...they may not expect dividends of any such size. Paternal Amadeo Peter Giannini, creator of Bancitaly, fears speculation in his stocks, dislikes inflated values, foresaw the bear raid which last spring brought Bancitaly crashing from 223 to a low of 100. At in, Wall Street holds Bancitaly sound, unlikely to suffer another shakedown...