Word: furnishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary is editor of Wallace's Farmer, founded by his grandfather and now in receivership. He is one of the original sponsors of Domestic Allotment as "the most intelligent scheme yet brought forward to furnish agriculture with a program for an orderly retreat." He loudly advocates currency inflation to relieve farm debt. Said he last month: "England has played us for a bunch of suckers. The smart thing to do would be to go off the gold standard a little further than England has. The British debtor has paid off his debts 50% easier than the U. S. debtor...
...government can inaugurate relief measures. Secondly, it is proposed that the President be given extraordinary powers under the "Trading with Enemies" act of 1917, to restrict gold shipments. Thirdly it is suggested that there be an issue of clearing-house certificates, based on bank deposits, in order to furnish a scrip money as a medium of exchange during the period of the holiday. Finally, many have favored at least a partial guarantee of deposits by the Federal government...
...squeezed and sweaty, had the second and seventh floors almost to themselves. Still no one interfered. Official Seattle is inclined to be lenient with its unemployed. For nearly two years they have been organized in a self-helping Unemployed Citizens League of high political potency. Municipally-owned public utilities furnish free light and water to thousands. Lately a mortgage company fixed up a fine home in one of the city's best residential districts. Before a prospective renter could move in, several unemployed families had taken squatters' possession of the house. Hundreds of such squatters are scattered through...
Thirty tons of sand and several large steel plates will furnish backing for the targets and insure against stray bullets, while wooden planking, furnished by the H.A.A. will block off the range from the rest of the district underneath the Stadium...
Unfortunately, the sort of legacy which demands such special application is not limited to the library. There are numerous examples in other departments of the University. The Anthropology department is forced to do without even the simplest supplies for its students, while the Physics department can furnish each of twenty Freshman with an instrument valued at eighty dollars. Besides such minor cases, there are classic monstrosities like the Engineering School, which has been laboring for years in a morass of difficulties originating in the will which endowed...