Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express my hope that you will vote against it. ... Several months ago I wrote to [Franklin Roosevelt] that I believed its enactment would not be in the best interests of the country. In the months that have passed since then my convictions have become strengthened. . . . Whatever immediate gain might be achieved through the proposed change in the Court would in my opinion be far more than offset by a loss of confidence in the independence of the courts and in governmental procedure...
...head; that he had determined to quell once and for all the spirit of revolt that is apt to affect second-term Congresses; that he was ignorant or heedless of the fact that by his course he was permanently splitting an already divided party and risking everything to gain little, even if he won on the immediate Court issue...
...Professional Golfer' must be and remain a synonym and pledge of honor, service and fair dealing. His professional integrity, fidelity to the game of golf, and a sense of his great responsibility to employers and employes, manufacturers and clients and to his brother professionals, transcend thought of material gain in the motives of the true Professional Golfer. It is fundamental that the Professional Golfer must understand the basic principles upon which his profession is established; otherwise he cannot . . . work for the good of Golf." Last week this solemn creed was imputed a hollow mockery by the Federal Trade Commission...
...change last week the stockmarket went up. It was no whooping rally; the Dow-Jones industrial averages showed a net gain of less than 3 points for the week. Daily trading on the New York Stock Exchange never reached 1,000,000 shares.* Yet Wall Street had what Owen D. Young calls a "feeling in the seat of the pants" that the market had turned a corner. From a recovery high early in March to their low in June the Dow-Jones industrials dropped approximately 15%, from 194.4 to 165.5. By last week they were back to 172.2. Mercurial shifts...
...talk is a stockmarket depressive it is always a shot in the arm for the grain market. As the bumper U. S. wheat harvest rolled north last week, the red cereal soared to a high of $1.26½ per bu. on the Chicago Board of Trade, registered a net gain of 10? for the week. Even more important than war talk was the disastrous failure of the wheat crop in Canada, where drought & rust in the past few weeks have cut 150,000,000 bu. off early estimates of the Dominion's harvest...