Word: greenback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to do more, as it did in the case of the last Treasury issue. Then the system found it advisable to purchase over $400 millions (not shown on the chart, since the purchases were made only last month). Such buying by the Federal Reserve is close to outright greenback printing and, if it ever reaches a large or continued scale, would have much the same effect...
Republicans, Too. On the crucial day the Senate farm-bloc leaders, New Mexico's sober Carl Hatch and Oklahoma's greenback-inflationist, Elmer Thomas, were content. Observers were fairly well convinced that the farm bloc would have its way in the Senate, too, when up rose Prentiss Brown in the Senate. Said...
Fourth, your greenback will go in part toward aiding needy students on Council Scholarships. The Council grants are not like those given by the University; they're not for the Dean's List kiddies. They're for the boys who are worthwhile keeping as Harvard men even sine PBK. More than $2,000 every year goes into this fund...
...Farm Bureau's lobbyist Ed O'Neal, whose hefty shoulder was behind the Fulmer (85%-of-parity) Act; like "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, who has already tangled with Henderson; like Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, who combines a farm constituency with a weakness for greenback schemes. Such men were already talking opposition to any price control until farm prices reach 100% of parity, or even more. But since parity is a variable figure (related to a cost-of-living index) and since higher farm prices mean a higher cost of living, parity is a mirage...
...votes, cast, Willkie received 44, Roosevelt 87, and Babson 89. Norman Thomas polled eight votes and John Zahnd of the Greenback Party had one supporter, while four were undecided...