Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principle of Mr. Ickes' plan is a disastrous principle; happily it will only be applied in Chopinesque diminuendo, and can wreak no harm. It may even be hooted away before the dreary game of platting has begun, so that the 200 need never set out through the mud. But within the lineaments of this small gimcrack may be discerned what is a very real and very large deficiency in the National Recovery Administration--its distressing lack of coordination, its undeniable muscular ague. Banking recovery has lagged so far behind industrial stimulus as to produce a dangerous gap in credit...
This innovation would do no harm to the corporate House life; it would simply, as the inter-House privilege did, make it more eclectic. It is a right and inevitable corollary of the University's past policy...
...industrial collapse in the inflation-ridden countries of post-war Europe. It is not necessary to have studied economics to discern that if flat money is issued only as fast as the industrial machine can produce then prices do not rise; and that if prices do not rise, no harm is done...
...Soviet Government was doing everything in its power last week to show that it meant no harm to any other nation. In Rome a non-aggression pact with Italy was signed. A guest in the still magnificent English Gothic Morosov Palace (now the Foreign Office guest residence) and there plied with champagne and caviar blini was bulky, friendly Edouard Herriot of France. Holding no government post, Citizen Herriot smiled a great deal and said nothing. All Moscow was convinced that new Franco- Russian trade agreements were brewing, felt that the old problem of the 20 billion...
...political views, I believe, as did Jefferson, that we must annul certain privileges "and instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society to make way for an aristocracy of virtue and talent." . . . EUGENE S. DANIELL...