Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Benchley'(Sun. 10 p. m., CBS) supplies the madness for Old Gold's Melody and Madness program, his first radio series. Melody by Baritone Dick Todd, Clarinetist Artie Shaw's orchestra...
...Moscow Gold." Outside Russia these Red Square cries were heartening to great numbers of Communist functionaries...
Even before 1935, when he began to soft-pedal World Revolution, J. Stalin was stingy about dispensing "Moscow gold" in the U. S. and Britain. Since 1935 many Reds have found him a Shylock...
...last known really big outpouring of "Moscow gold" in the English-speaking world was when $2,000,000 was openly transmitted from the Industrial Bank of the U. S. S. R. via Lloyds' and other British banks to leaders of the British General Strike-most of whom were not even Communists, an excruciating pain to the devoted. They watched beefy British Labor leaders who took the money, who were interviewed by London papers as exclaiming "Thank God for Moscow!", and who then gave up the General Strike with about as much mealy-mouthed reluctance as served Britain to give...
...restrictions. Inflation, as exemplified by the devaluation of the dollar, he prescribes as a possible means of relieving a contracted credit situation. In a one-act play, he gives a cross section of public reasoning on the inflation question, which is dominated by Al Smith's "I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars!" Possibly Professor Rogers' most valuable discussion is that which deals with the national budget. Here he expounds the theory that a budget deficit is necessary and quite normal during a depression. Increased government spending to maintain consumer purchasing power should be carried...