Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...packed chamber of Senators and Representatives, he an- nounced that he had finally given up hope of balancing the budget in 1939, that in attacking monopoly his Administration had no intention of attacking business as a whole, and that the current Recession was the cause of more perplexity than fear...
...arrival of the decision made him three-quarters of an hour late to the Detroit combined performance of the Yale Dramatic Club and Whiffenpoof songsters.* Elated U. A. W. President Homer Martin dashed off a wire to Harry Bennett asking for conference. Said Mr. Martin: "You need not fear a conference of this sort. We do not believe in force or violence, as you evidently do." As translated by reporters into printable English, tough Mr. Bennett's comment was "Phooey...
...same 50 had inventories of $285,606,000. In short, these concerns had more goods on hand when the current depression began than they did shortly after th crash in 1929. These figures were presented to President Roosevelt last week as a refutation of the contention of businessmen that fear of New Deal oppression caused the present slump. When a corporation is uncertain about the future, the argument ran, it does not stock up heavily with materials and supplies. Inference was that the 1937 slump was caused not by fear but by overconfidence. Since business economists have generally held that...
...consumed 6,706,000 tons of sugar. The AAA quota for 1937 was first set at 6,682,000 tons, then raised to a whopping 7,042,000. But consumption in the U. S. has plummeted during the past three months of depression and sugar-men now fear that this year's consumption will not equal even the original 1937 quota. They were distinctly irked, therefore, when Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace last week set a new 1938 quota of 6,861,000 tons. Said the Wall Street Journal: "In the opinion of the trade a quota...
...type popularized by Richard Halliburton running them a close third. This year's audiences will hear little sex but much politics, fewer accounts of adventures in Africa but many discussions on how to make friends, how to influence people, how to conquer worry, feelings of inferiority and fear. Most astonishing news to hard-bitten lecture agents was the spectacular success of Dorothy Thompson, whose intense, nervous speeches recapitulate the ideas she dins into her daily column in the New York Herald Tribune. Giving only eight lectures at an undisclosed figure, Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) last week had turned...