Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diffident about; criticizing his native land after so brief a re-acquaintance. But he has just come from a two weeks stay in Washington where he gave serious attention to the workings of the government, and he found most of America's his could be blamed on Money...
...danger in America is not Fascism," he said, referring to an article which he had written in Washington for "The Capitol Daily" on "Gold, War, and National Money...
Pound is extremely concerned over the current confusion in terms which, he says, afflicts economics especially. He would have eight or ten terms exactly defined and understood by people, such words as Money, Credit, Property, Capital, Usury...
...goods and ideas and stop Hitler from selling his"). Of the long-range political and economic complexities, little is heard. There is in the United States a superabundance of capital ready willing, and able to be invested. There is in south and Central America ample opportunity to put this money to valuable use, for it has been estimated that in undeveloped raw materials alone, this area is--not excluding Siberia--the richest in the world. Benefits from the potential investment would accrue to both halves of the American continent. But the risks to private capital arising from unstable political equilibrium...
...curricular learning. If President Conant is still anxious for large numbers of Harvard men to be bathed in America's past, let the Program catch the Freshmen as they enter the Yard, fresh and eager to try their intellectual wings. Let the farcical Bliss Prizes be abolished and the money be given for the best Freshman essays on some phase of American civilization. This year's successful tie-up with English A can be extended to other Freshman courses, and will undoubtedly draw a large group of Yardlings...