Word: investments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliament and they should be placed in circulation. . . . France's future depends upon confidence. In 1935 our gold reserves declined from 82 billions of francs to 66 billions of francs but this did not result from intrinsic weakness of the franc. It resulted from speculative at tacks, investment of capital abroad - as when our citizens seized upon the recent rise in Wall Street securities to invest - and hoarding. All these three forces we are in a strong position to combat...
...French made world headlines by announcing that "routine maneuvers" will put the navies of these two Great Powers virtually on a war footing by Jan. 20-the day the League of Nations meets to deliberate the Italo-Ethiopian question further. Then 92 French warships and 156 British will invest the Mediterranean. Obliging M. Laval thus offered his countrymen their choice of war, and in effect dared the Chamber and Senate to say whether they prefer it to his policy of peace at Ethiopia's expense. Resolved not to fight, students of the Paris Law Faculty demonstrated in behalf...
...ordinary U. S. citizen were given a blank check and told to go out and buy, according to his own taste, a new painting by a U. S. artist, he would probably pass up the works of Benton, Curry, Wood, Kroll and Speicher, invest in a seascape by Frederick Judd Waugh. Later he would be considerably surprised to learn that the Bentons, the Currys, the Woods, the Krolls and the Speichers all looked disdainfully down their artistic noses at Oldster Waugh (pronounced Waw). Last week for the second successive year Artist Waugh won the $200 prize for the most popular...
Above all, don't save. Don't invest. There is too damn much of that in this country. What we need is spending, consumption; nothing would give so much employment as a good fire. If you don't think so, you have no social feeling, no faith, no sympathy, no Co-operation...
...Juliet is vividly alive, glamourously beautiful, never anything more pretentious than a fourteen year old girl of Renaissance Verona. She reads her lines with a freshness and depth of understanding which invest the whole play with a breath-taking beauty. To one of America's most talented actresses, hail...