Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington has unquestionably contributed its thunderhead to the previously clear horizon. A group of radicals are dictating the tax measures of the country, and the Mellon Bill has seemingly been sidetracked. Senators and Congressmen are vastly interested in "putting themselves on record" and in putting their opponents in a hole. After Easter, Presidential politics will probably inject an even greater element of uncertainty into the business situation...
...main justification for this policy is of course the fear of inflation. Nevertheless, declining earning assets of certain Federal Reserve banks may be a contributory cause. The expectation of a lowered rediscount rate is general; it is felt that this move is after all the "ace-in-the-hole" of the party which has undertaken to make this Presidential year one of prosperity and confidence. Much "bull ammunition" has already been shot off, such as U. S. Steel's extra dividends and encouraging prophecies by individuals who usually care little about seeing their names in the paper. The lowering...
...Committee was out of the hole, with $45,000 to boot. Besides, National Committeemen had brought about $25,000 to help towards paying off the debt. Out of debt, and $70,000 clear! Quiet, modest Cordell Hull, its Chairman, had brought the Committee...
Pictures of Alice in Wonderland and her contemporaries in The Rocket Book, The Hole Book and Topsys and Turveys, not to mention the St. Nicholas Magazine, made Peter Newell famous to the juvenile reading public. He died last week...
...Flossmoor (Chicago) last summer (TIME, Oct. 1) discussion has sizzled. After intensive investigation the U. S. G. A. decided to retain the present ruling, arguing that the stymie's abolition would eliminate "what many believe to be the finest shot in golf, the short pitch into the hole...