Word: lax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crooked smile. Prone to swearing a good deal in a quiet, pleasant way, he never loses his temper, though he is a martinet about detail. When he is in command, his ship must be spotless, his men equally neat. In only one respect is he himself lax-his beard, which is fast-growing, heavy. Hating to shave, he has tried all types of razor, has lately returned to an old-fashioned straightedge...
...sooner was General Coxey, 81, nominated than he started on his campaign-in the vehicle by which he had arrived, a patent medicine truck, from which he sells a concoction of his own making called "Cox-E-Lax" for $1.25 per bottle (see cut). Heading in the general direction of the Pacific Northwest, he promised in the 16 months before election to peddle "Cox-E-Lax" in every one of the 48 States, talk "mostly on money...
...Congressional delay, caused by an unwieldy party majority, lax leadership and the customary rebelliousness of Congressmen at Presidential midterm...
...brought the first real signs of action by the Administration on a new food & drug law. The Senate Commerce Committee reported out a bill which was much less than Dr. Tugwell and Mrs. Roosevelt had originally planned, but much more than the makers and merchandisers of Ovaltine, Listerine, Ex-Lax, Sal Hepatica, Vicks, Fleischmann's Yeast, Aspirin, Pepsodent, Danderine, Vitalis, et al. cared to accept voluntarily. And President Roosevelt prodded Congress on to action with a special message...
...gold cover behind French currency stood at over 80%. Even so, psychological pressure was great. After-effects of the French crisis fortnight ago kept the currencies of four gold bloc countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland) fractionally below the gold export point all week. President Roosevelt, by relaxing completely the lax treasury restrictions on export of U. S. capital, convinced Europeans that the U. S. is now a better place to which to send their money than heretofore...