Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will get just that before long, if it continues to withhold its support from the government bond market. It has excluded Morganthau, the President's chief fiscal officer, from its meetings, apparently with the intention of following an independent "we-know-better" policy of deposit contraction (credit deflation) to offset whatever attempts the President may make to finance the Recovery Act with government bonds. Happy the fate of these self-appointed Watchers Over the President if through obstinate resistance to the administration they bring about direct government control of the Federal Reserve System as the first step towards nationalization...
...from time to time after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the President. Whenever necessary to the end in view we shall also buy or sell gold in the world market. . . . This is a policy and not an expedient. It is not to be used merely to offset a temporary fall in prices. We are thus continuing to move toward a managed currency." This was news indeed, but ambiguous. 5) "Government credit will be maintained and a sound currency will accompany a rise in the American commodity-price level." This was hope, not news. No means had anyone...
This is the first year that fall practice has been held. In other years, men have not reported for basketball until winter, and since there was so little time to prepare for the opening game, attention was given to the development of plays instead of to the fundamentals. To offset this condition, Coach Fesler issued a call for candidates early in the school year, and practice has been held two evenings a week since October 3. About November 12, the squad will shift its workouts from Hemenway to the New Indoor Athletic Building...
...recognition as in the case of 100,000 New York City transit workers; 3) revenge NRA violations as in the case of light & power employes. Senator Wagner's National Labor Board could not settle old strikes as fast as new ones cropped up. Re-employment gains were heavily offset by men called off their regular jobs. Aware that striking Labor is one of the sure signs of recovery, President Green declared: "There have been some strikes but it is some indication of their character and cause to find that in every case Labor has been sustained by the National...
...students have to traverse the slippery boards to keep their ankles out of the wet gravel and slimy clay, for it is expected that all the paths will be replaced before the end of the year. It was learned that the cost of constructing the new walks is offset by the cost of putting down the boardwalks in the fall and taking them up in the spring...