Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...required to maintain on de posit with the Bank of Canada an amount equal to 5% of its own deposits. Each bank and the Dominion's Finance Department will turn over their present gold holdings (some $100,000,000 worth) to serve as a credit base. Taking a hint from President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Bennett wrote into his banking bill a clause empowering the central bank to seize any other gold within the borders together with a provision that any profits from eventual devaluation of the Canadian dollar will revert to the Government. The charters of the commercial banks...
...Censorship has created a situation where you can only hint that a man is keeping a woman. You can't show him unlocking the door of her house, but you can show him in her bedroom...
...time record. Until 1917 the annual total of railroad abandoned was so small that no one bothered to keep records. Longest section abandoned last year was 72 mi. of the Southern Pacific between Cochise and Commonwealth, Ariz. Both passenger and freight traffic had nearly vanished with no hint of revival. Second largest was an entire railroad-the 56-mi. San Joaquin & Eastern running from El Prado to Cascade, Calif. Built to supply a utility construction project, it had outlived its usefulness and the area was well served by big buses and good roads. The Norfolk & Western sloughed...
...post of New York State Democratic Chairman. A long morning visit to the White House by Mr. Farley resulted in the news that he would retire from his state chairmanship when his term expires in September, from the national chairmanship after the November elections. To newshawks a broad hint was dropped that Postmaster General Farley would like to run for Governor of New York...
Like many another man whose success has been extraordinary, George Graham Rice gave no hint of genius until he was past 30. Just when he abandoned his real name of Jacob Simon Herzig no one knows. His youth was punctured with one jail term for grand larceny and another for forging his father's name to a check. Shortly after the turn of the century he founded Maxim & Gay, "Turf Information Bureau," in Manhattan. His "information" was good and he often sold 5,000 tips a day at $5 each. Having a great love for the horses...