Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These bland British inquiries, as made by Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps at the Wilhelmstrasse, opened with a stiff "protest against" Realmleader Hitler's "unilateral action" in "putting forward, as a decision already arrived at, strengths for military effectives greatly exceeding any before suggested-strengths, moreover, which, if maintained unaltered, must make more difficult if not impossible the agreement of other powers vitally concerned...
...dull morning last fortnight brokers on the New York Cotton Exchange were getting ready to take off their linen office coats and go out to lunch. Suddenly for no apparent reason one trader sprang forward to the ring, announced he would sell cotton for 11.80? per lb. - 20 points below the price at which that staple has been virtually pegged by the Government for seven months. A violent wave of selling broke over the market, uncovering nests of stop orders. The price fell 10 to 20 points on each transaction. May contracts sank to 10.25?. Brokers snouted themselves hoarse...
Perhaps this very straight-forward, sound shallowness will save them from the fate of many efforts at high-brow education over the radio. One cannot educate fifty million people in time to prevent the deluge. Even college graduates, moreover, have been known not to understand the complications of the present economic situation. So a league of crusaders, fighting the obvious demagoguery which now abounds, appealing to American horse-sense, may be just the right weapon in the word-fight of the depression...
With the name and fame of Harvard University behind them, any positive program put forward by our Economics professor could not fail to command attention. On fundamentals they agree. On trends of policy they agree. Let them step forward with some constructive criticism and command the attention that is worthy of their ideas...
Yale, without Captain Eggie Miles, Len Klein, flashy forward, and the Sophomore star Bob Beckwith, was in the same straits as was Harvard in the first contest, and after the first basket, was never in the lead...