Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gazette's articles about his Klan connections. It did not say whether his original resignation from the Klan was bona fide or merely a 1926 campaign gesture. It did not explain why he had accepted the "unsolicited card" or whether he had tried to give it back. In particular it did not deny the effusive speech attributed to him at a Klan klorero after the unsolicited card had reached him. Most of all it did not tell whether he joined the Klan out of hatred for non-Aryans, and later dropped it in a new spirit of tolerance...
...natural, economic forces, that is one thing. If it is artificially caused, that is something else. You should remember that we are not interested in prices as such. . . . We want a free market, and prices will always go up & down in a free market, depending upon the health of particular companies and employment and so on. We don't want to interfere with that; we are not investment counsel . . . nor can we save a fool from his folly...
...thing in particular still threatened commodity prices, however, a drop in pound sterling, dominant currency of world commodities. Last week there was little indication that the pound would not remain reasonably stable, but there was fear that the franc, down last week to a new eleven-year low, might eventually topple the pound (see p. 24). In the long view, sinking foreign currencies may be inflationary, may lead to another cut in the dollar. But immediate effects, as Herbert Hoover liked to point out after Britain left gold in 1931, are sometimes unpleasantly deflationary...
...uninsistent politically, is marred only by a too-obvious leaning towards Ernest Hemingway in style. It provides an excellent report of one man's experiences, impressions, in battle, offers in two or three of its episodes descriptions hardly-to-be-forgotten of life in wartime. For these in particular, most readers will find it valuable...
...work of the Office has just begun as far as the student is concerned. It is extremely necessary that all seniors who are as yet unplaced or uncertain about what they will be doing at this time next year, register early with the Office, so that the student's particular aptitudes may be discovered, and interviews arranged with the proper employers. It should be borne in mind at all times, however, that the Placement Office, while leading a student right up to trough of employment, cannot get the job for him. Dean Plimpton's office will help him learn where...