Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Reserve Banks will resume open-market operations on a grand scale. At the Treasury's order they will buy up to $3,000,000,000 worth of Federal securities and hold them for a specified time. Thus $3,000,000,000 in cash will pass along to the banks and presumably into commercial credit. But last year President Hoover tried the same method of credit inflation and failed to produce results. In three months the Federal Reserve bought $950,000,000 worth of "Governments," but their payments lodged in the banks and never got out to the country...
Only when Moe Rosenberg was indicted by a Chicago grand jury for failure to pay $65,000 taxes, did the full light of publicity fall upon Mr. Rosenberg's lurid past: a confession of guilt to an arson charge in 1913; a 20-month sentence to Leavenworth in 1915 for stealing from freight cars. Last week Chicago papers promised that the Rosenberg trial "would rival that of Capone," would painfully air a basketful of local and Statewide dirty Democratic linen...
...assisted by a grimier hand nearer home, the mark of Boston's salty fame has had strange bedfellows in the public press: Benny the Alligator, James the Polecat, The (Sacred) Owl, the (Sacred) Ibis, and other stuffed nonsense. Weary of swinging in the winds of State House oratory, the grand old effigy could have taken its leave, alone and in honor. It deserved better than to disappear with a zoo-full of mildewed bridge-prizes. For the sacred cod, aloof and unsullied, is no kin to these doubtful deities, these gods brought down to the market-place...
...using the present personnel on the thirty-hour basis. Both represent a handicap. As for the effect on labor, the present legislation will force a shortening of hours in many industries, and there will result a decrease in the total wages paid to labor. Certainly there can be no grand genesis of re-employment as forecasted, and to the small extent it does put men to work, it will do so only at the greater expense of those already employed...
...ridden over four times around the world in six-day bike races," declared Reggie McNamara, the "grand old man" of the sport who entered his ninety-fifth grind last night at the Garden, in an interview yesterday afternoon, "and it's gotten so that I feel better in a race than...