Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhaustion of the short interest with alarm. In two days it decreased 1.079,000 shares. On Sept. 23 it was deemed essential to remove the restrictions, again permit short-selling, create a source of buying power. Although this was done the short interest did not increase rapidly enough to offset real liquidation. Prices declined sharply until Oct. 5 but the Exchange held its ground, made no further move...
Equally plainly, Scot MacDonald and the Conservative Party (bulwark of his National Government) believed last week that the risk of social upheaval is offset if not canceled by a strong probability that the Labor Party cannot win. In 1929 the Labor Party, led by Mr. MacDonald with a united front, polled 8.416,557 votes, the Conservatives 8,669,469, the Liberals...
...wisdom to place responsibility on educational institutions whose duty to the state certainly is not financial. There are indications that the attraction of post-season football games is declining. It is possible that the funds raised by charity games may be so inconsiderable that the resultant psychological effect will offset the benefits derived from the money. There will be inevitable regional variations in response to this method of indirect taxation. In sections most seriously affected by the crisis the income will be the least...
Such talk from two regular and conservative Republicans sounded almost like heresy to their G. O. P. colleagues. Had Messrs. Reed & Bacharach forgotten that a Presidential election was coming, that any tax increase would handicap President Hoover in that race and make campaign cash collections doubly difficult? To offset their words, Senate Leader James Eli Watson trundled down to the White House, talked long and earnestly with President Hoover about taxation. He emerged to use the White House lobby as a sounding board for his fiscal ideas...
Increased expenditures ($358.000,000) less the Government's economies ($132,000,000) gave Mr. Mills his net increase in 1931 outlay ($226,000.000). Said he: "The increase was largely due to agricultural aid and relief, additional benefits to War veterans and the accelerated governmental construction activities which more than offset other reductions...