Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrialists and bankers, his opposition will undoubtedly be of prime importance in undermining the President's general support. This, in the opinion of Castor and myself, is indeed a great misfortune. The story is told that at a banquet in London, where Dr. Sprague waxed conservatively eloquent over the manifold virtues of the depression in eradicating the weak and inefficient, etc., Mr. J. M. Keynes approached him afterward and said, "There is only one word to describe you. You are a sadist." Dr. Sprague is a primitivist whose primitivism extends back only to the nineteenth century. Along with many other...
...club. The other two innovations put forward, however, indicate both a lack of foresight and the absence of sufficient hindsight to consider the crys of previous Councils for House autonomy and House tradition. The disadvantages of introducing non-members of the Houses into the House teams and libraries are manifold: the libraries, often overcrowded now, will lose much of their value; the temptation to take rooms outside the Houses will be increased, because the privileges of House membership will be so easily attainable by outsiders; and the sense of unity in the various Houses will be lost. In large measure...
...objects of the Grab State Plan, according to Mr. Walker, are manifold, and it is designed to attack the problems of the depression from more than one angle. "In the first place," he said, "the plan is intended to relieve unemployment through putting men to work in the gold fields. It should open up our vast gold resources through the grub staking of prospectors, and lead to the location of new dredging operations and the discovery of new lode mines. In the second place, it will put gold... purchasing power and a medium of exchange... directly into the hands...
...Tennessee Valley Authority Act, as signed at the White House, specifically called for three administrators who believe heart & soul in the wisdom and feasibility of its manifold purposes. For chairman President Roosevelt promptly appointed Arthur Ernest Morgan, 55, president of Ohio's Antioch ("Work& Study") College. An engineer of much experience, Chairman Morgan has been fascinated by water and its uses since as a youngster he roved the Minnesota prairie. He wrote the Minnesota and Arkansas drainage codes, helped with those of Mississippi, Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico. He tamed the wild Miami River after it had flooded Dayton...
Tartly observed the lawyers for Huntington's banks & power company: "The only conspiracy here is to collect some of Bangs's manifold debts...