Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treasury. Conceivably the U. S. might have twice its present public debt and men might still believe its credit good. Conceivably U. S. citizens might go to bed tonight without alarm at the $29,600,000,000 debt of the U. S. and wake tomorrow morning without faith in U. S. credit, unwilling to lend their Government another dime. Faith cannot be weighed in any scales yet invented...
Nonetheless last week in Atlanta, Franklin Roosevelt publicly named a debt figure ($55,000,000,000 to $70,000,000,000) which "many of the great bankers" had told him could be reached before the faith of U. S. citizens in their Government's credit would break. "If the bankers," said the President, "thought the country could stand a debt of 55 to 70 billion dollars in 1933, with values as they were then, I wonder what they would say the country could stand today...
...these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw." Again, gentlemen, the Vagabond urges you to follow him this afternoon...
...asking the producers of oil and other necessities of war to live up to the spirit behind the Neutrality Act Mr. Hull and Mr. lucks have been displaying an almost childlike faith in the goodness of human nature. How any businessman can be expected to pass by fat profits and refuse to sell a commodity not at all forbidden by the neutrality legislation is hard to understand. This so-called "moral pressure" is typical of the present administration's tendency to use force which it has not the conviction to ask-Congress to legalize...
...followed in even such minor cases as illegal parking because antagonism is aroused under the present administration which is never overcome when cooperation is really needed. The members of Dunster House would have been more willing to reveal any information they might have had if they had not lost faith in Mr. Apted's unpolished tactics in other instances...