Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skinner Theory is based on the fact that, before a car is bought, a truckload of goods is shipped, a bridge built, money usually changes hands. Working from weekly bank statements, Mr. Skinner has evolved a number of formulas for watching this financial ebb & flow as it relates to various factors such as stock prices, bond prices, commodity prices, etc. TIME applies this same method not as a measure of business volume but of business' financial soundness-i.e., an Index of Business Conditions. The resulting Index differs radically from the several specialized indexes Mr. Skinner has developed...
...Washington to discuss trade, money, Dictators and armaments was Brazil's Foreign Minister, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, onetime (1934-38) Ambassador to the U. S. Secretary Hull had a bug, too, but omnipresent Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles took good care of Dr. Aranha. The Navy's impending war game emphasized Brazil's importance in a war involving "hemisphere defense" (see p. 12), and Dr. Aranha stated that in any "international civil war," Brazil would be on the U. S. side, "Absolutely!" His major contribution to U. S. news columns was that the "old" Germans in Brazil...
...House last week voted to ham-handed Martin Dies of Texas, Rightist drum major of the Leftist parade, his $100,000 expense money for further probing into UnAmerican Activities. Mr. Dies promptly went shopping for investigators, ex-G-Men preferred. But Speaker Bankhead struck one last minute blow for the Leftists. To a vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down...
...Money from $1 entry fees is to go to charity. Competing pairs will not have to face last year's winning team of John R. Blair '39, and Frank W. Edlin '28, 1 G. B. Adams will be seeking its third successive House crown...
...tryouts take on a special significance with the announcement of the Debating Council that the Lee Wade speaking prize money will be added to the money of the Coolidge award so that two prizes of one hundred and of fifty dollars each will be given to the two best men in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debates...