Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed it in the direction of currency inflation. There was no formal statement and the newshawks, scribbling frantically to catch his husky words, were warned that they could not direct-quote the President. But there was the stark fact: the President was embargoing the export of gold. It meant that the dollar, no longer convertible into gold, would have to shift for itself in foreign exchange and seek its own level downward. Was this a sudden decision by the President? No, he had planned the embargo order four days before. What was his primary purpose? To raise domestic commodity prices...
...amendment for 16-to-1 free coinage of the metal. Close on its heels trod Senator Frazier with an amendment for fiat money, Senator Connally for dollar devaluation, many another. The Democratic leadership, unable to stave off a vote, decided to stand and fight the currency inflationists. That meant standing and fighting one man-John William Elmer Thomas, senior Senator from Oklahoma, who for two years has been the ringleader of Congressional inflationists. This tall (6 ft. 2 in.) well-groomed Senator with slick, grey hair above a round, solemn face was born in Indiana 56 years ago. Graduated from...
President Roosevelt needed no college professor to tell him what the Senate vote meant. Another month or two and Senator Thomas & friends would have a majority with which to dictate to the Administration a wild program. Happy politician that he is, the President quickly summoned Senator Thomas to the White House. They shut the office door. They faced each other across a desk. They began talking-the unsmiling Oklahoma lawyer dead set on putting out more money, the genial Hyde Park squire equally determined to effect a friendly settlement by conciliation and compromise. Minutes ticked into hours. When they rose...
...College itself resumed classes in Concord but returned to Cambridge in time to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The five buildings which comprised Harvard College in 1775 were placed at the disposal of the army. Approximately 640 men were squeezed into Massachusetts Hall, a building normally meant to house 64 supernatural phenomena. Bells rang in "Scholars." About the same number was placed in "The New College" of Hollis Hall, 240 soldiers were assigned to the "Old College," "the first Stoughton," while Holden housed 160 of the troops...
...horrified and left him. Then Solal abandoned everything for her-faith, riches, power-and became a renegade, but her love for him was dead. He went downhill fast. With the last of his strength he went in search of her, found her happy in forgetfulness of him. Solal meant to kill her but instead he did something better...