Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan [inflation] is deliberately designed to double some prices but not others. ... In other words for every one citizen that it helped, it would harm five citizens by exactly as much as it helped...
...much emphasis has been placed by the government here, of course, on the influencing of the price level through gold purchases. If it were not for the psychological disturbance caused by tinkering with the gold price of the dollar, there would be no real harm in the experiment. The value of gold is not changing in terms of foreign currencies, but it is varying from day to day in terms of dollars. Can the United States force up the price of gold measured in all currencies, including those of gold standard countries...
...gold content. He had to meet the pressure of the inflationists. He had to continue to try to persuade the other governments of the world to try the commodity standard experiment. So inasmuch as he came to believe there couldn't be any stabilization now anyway, there seemed no harm in an academic espousal of the commodity standard...
...against the foolish notions of the Socialists, Communists, Naziists and all the others who are arrayed against constitutional government. . . . It's all right to have economy . . . but don't let false economy fall on our public schools. ... It wouldn't do the State a bit of harm if we didn't build another mile of road for the next three years. . . . But one single year that education is neglected can never be brought back...
...should order your Tokyo correspondent to send you more correct news from this part of the world. In these days of delicate feeling between America and Japan such reports as this one I have criticized may do much harm. To make your correspondent realize the enormity of his offense-I suggest that you dock his next honorarium a substantial amount and apply the same to extend my subscription to TIME-so that I may go on indefinitely enjoying your magazine-even though I cannot now be sure that the fascinatingly entertaining accounts of affairs from various parts of the world...