Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questionable success, faced difficulty in getting new appropriations from Congress. In parts of the South many a no-good farmer who has been "rehabilitated" now drives along the road with his new mule, new wagon, new harness grinning down at the "leading citizen" of the community sweating in his lower 40 to pay the interest on his mortgage, with an old mule, spliced harness and last year's ploughlines. All this Dr. Tugwell classifies as prejudice and dismisses, but Congressmen at home among their constituents do not like it. In order to get more money out of Congress...
...weeks preceding the election Republicanism reached white heat in the town. Landon Clubs and Constitutional Leagues mushroomed. But the lower elements continued to be low in spite of the best efforts of their neighbors, and, having the jump in population, the Valley caused the town to go for Roosevelt by no uncertain majority...
...ponderous gadget with the type carried on a circular frame operated by a lever. That Burt could write faster with his machine than by hand is highly improbable. Yet it had a feature that was lacking in some commercial machines for many years: separate sets of capital and lower-case letters, with a shift mechanism for changing from one to the other...
...without regard to its effect on the world situation." In Wall Street a feeble attempt was made to brush the problem aside on the ground that part of what appeared to be foreign investment was in fact buying by U. S. citizens through foreign banking houses, whose margins are lower than those demanded in the U. S. But discussed with perfect seriousness was the possibility of a ban on importations of investment capital, something which no nation has ever seen fit to do in all history...
...lower courts stockholder Keller lost, the ruling being that a vote of the majority of the stock was binding on the minority. Last week on appeal, however, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed that opinion, holding that Stockholder Keller and his fellow holdouts were indeed entitled to cash. Said the high court of Delaware: "Property rights may not be destroyed...