Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover's Governor General, he told President Roosevelt of his travels through 17 countries on his westbound journey home. ¶ President Roosevelt proclaimed Oct 8-14 as Fire Prevention Week. ¶ To the American Bankers Association convening in Chicago the President sent a message exhorting its members to loosen up on commercial credit to help along the NRA drive. ¶ President Roosevelt got a business letter last week from the son of President Cleveland. As counsel for the Individual Brand Petroleum Association, Richard Folsom ("Dick") Cleveland, famed for the great revolt he led against the Princeton Club system...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard has spoken of "separating future creative scholars into a distinct body. . . . Such an atmosphere should carry intellectual contagion beyond anything now in this country.'' Dr. Lowell has also referred often to "the stranglehold of the Ph. D." on education. To loosen it at Harvard he announced last week a "Society of Fellows -24 young men who will spend three years in comfortable study, free of any academic regulation and lured by no prospect of credits or degrees. Graduates of any college, aged 25 or younger, they will be known as "Junior Prize Fellows...
Capable Playwright Crothers has cross-stitched her problem drama with pure comedy. Brightest moments of the play occur when Mary's rich, flibberty-gibbet friend Bridget (Spring Byington) is permitted to loosen her tactless but well-meaning tongue. "I know how you feel, Mary," she says consolingly. "It used to make me feel so badly when my husband went off and left me. I didn't feel half so sad when he died. I knew where...
...Germany have totaled over $200,000,000 so far this year, an increase of 100%. They attributed this to freer granting of credit to Russia by German banks (see p. 19). Obviously the Amtorg moral, plain for depressed U. S. business to read, is that U. S. Bankers might loosen...
...loosen the tight lips of those who know the gunmen, the New York World-Telegram and the Daily News each offered $5,000 reward. The Hearst American promised to pay $10,000 for "exclusive information." The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association posted a $10,000 reward...