Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oftentimes have enabled them to profit to an unusual extent. ... I would ask your most earnest consideration of the advisability of applying the same principle to the sugar payments by means of an amendment [to the proposed bill] which would provide for payments at rates for large operating units lower than those applicable to family-size farms...
...bill authorizing the Government to pay the equivalent of local taxes on its low-cost housing projects, fix rents lower than previously required...
...Omnibus Flood Control bill, authorizing $320,000,000 for reservoirs, dams, levees and spillways throughout the land; and a complementary $272,000,000 bill, sponsored by Louisiana's Overton, for flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley. Bursting with political pork, the Omnibus bill was passed by the House four days before adjournment last August, filibustered to death in the Senate by Maryland's Tydings. Revived by the floods of last March, it was pared of its local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed...
Institutions which buy bonds with the idea of holding them to maturity would not suffer from lower prices. The suckers would be those who bought at high levels and who decided to sell during a national boom, when interest rates are generally high, bond prices low. Investment bankers are thinking about that type of investor already. Fortnight ago in Manhattan, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s Hugh Knowlton wound up a speech to the Financial Advertisers with a highly logical argument for future use. This smart, sharp-nosed young banker, who was trained in the law and got into finance...
Former ministries, often with Socialist tags, but always with varying shades of liberal rather than Socialist opinions, might have offered some compromise. Not so the Popular Front government, being constituted as it is, with the radical left in absolute control of the lower house, and hence, in control of the ministry...