Word: governmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The outlook did not look as good to everyone, notably to Federal Reserve Board Member Marriner S. Eccles. He warned that there was inflationary trouble ahead. Before a congressional subcommittee last week, he ticked off a few signals: consumer credit is now up to $17 billion, almost double what it...
The talk about inflationary Government spending had grown so loud that even the Administration seemed to be taking note. Last week Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was back at his desk in Washington after a swing around the country, in which he had dispensed thousands of soothing words into the...
GOVERNMENT
The central character, a backwoods idealist who becomes a one-man state government, is hard-centered, soft-surfaced Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford). His life story is told in choppy, dramatic incidents, which give the movie a curious pattern-Stark at the football stadium, Stark haranguing a fairgrounds crowd, Stark bulldozing...
A River-Bed. Unofficially, in his letters, Lafcadio Hearn told a different story. "It seems as if everything had suddenly become clear to me, and utterly void of emotional interest," he wrote a few years after his arrival. "There are no depths to stir, no race-profundities to explore: all...