Word: looser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character, both Ed Walsh, as the younger son who revolts, and Yvonne Korshak, as the aging but eager aunt, bring excellent consistent emotion into earnestly wrought characterizations. After her beautifully timed hula dance during dinner, the high point of the play, the stage suffers from loose writing and looser pacing. Director Lumbard lacked the experience to build through to the end; his staging was often too static and hesitant...
Died. Harley Martin Kilgore, 63, senior Democratic Senator from West Virginia, chairman since last year of the Senate Judiciary Committee; of a brain hemorrhage; in Bethesda, Md. A workhorse New and Fair Dealer, Kilgore sponsored measures favoring tighter monopoly controls, more social security coverage, looser immigration laws, was the only Senator from his state to be elected to three consecutive terms...
...bitter and recurring debate in U.S. history concerns the money supply. In the 1870s and '80s national elections were fought on the issue of tight v. easy money; new parties-the Populists, the Green-backers-sprang up whose primary function was to argue for a looser money supply. William Jennings Bryan, Boy Orator of the Platte, won his reputation and the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896 with a plea for easier money...
...mortgage and retail credit-all potential inflationary spots in 1956's economy. Yet, said he, there are still some businessmen clamoring for fewer Government credit controls every time "sales do not exceed expectations or fail to set a record." For 1956 the need was for tighter, not looser reins on inflation through the FRB's checks on bank reserves and interest rates. Said Martin: "If it were possible to have good times without controls, then we could go along without change. It is the duty of the Federal Reserve to see that money [is] our servant...
...offer, acted as if this were a problem for Europeans only. Talk of an EDC without France died almost as soon as it began. Konrad Adenauer contended that EDC might still be revived, but he sounded neither convinced nor convincing. Mendès-France proposed a looser European coalition that would include Britain, but Sir Winston Churchill (for all his high-minded talk of European citizenship in 1947) had said before, and last week said again, that Britain was unwilling to get too involved on the Continent...