Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflationary issue of $2.400,000,000 in new currency. He gave the proposition short shrift. Said he: "This issue of fiat money would undermine the credit of the country . . . and shake the soundness of the United States Government itself. It's an invitation to start on the primrose path Germany followed until her mark went down. . . . Look out when you tamper with the soundness of your currency. These Bonus bonds you hear about are just greenbacks. . . . Inflation of a currency once started in a country seldom stops short of its complete economic ruin." When a Congressman asked...
...anti-hoarding campaign, Secretary Mills added, ". . . While it seems almost cruel to urge patience ... yet I cannot help but feel we should give the forces which have been set in motion an opportunity to exert themselves before yielding to doubt as to whether we are on the right path." Pressmen applauded politely...
...Diamond, was dropped from the bill of Billy Watson's burlesque show when it reached Paterson, N. J. Protested Actress Diamond : "My theatrical act teaches a great moral lesson - everyone, young and old, who sees it realizes that crime is futile and that the old straight and narrow path is the only one to follow." J. Malcolm Crim, onetime poor store keeper of Kilgore, Tex. who was made rich and elected first mayor of his town after oil was struck on his mother's farm (TIME. Feb. 2, 1931), told a newsman in Manhattan: "I'm having...
...rays and hide its general brownness.- (The earth's atmosphere makes the earth shine blue and 40 times more brightly than the moon.) When the moon gets between the earth and the sun and totally eclipses the sun, as it will next Aug. 31, the swift path of the moon's shadow is black.f But when the ball of the earth gets between sun and moon, as last week, sunlight niters through the fringe of the earth's atmosphere and is refracted into the shadow which the earth throws upon the eclipsed moon. Red predominates in that...
...Tunney blames himself for becoming "the most unpopular of all the heavyweight champions. ... I goaded and I gloated. I richly deserved what I got. None [of the other champions] . . . ever received the almost general disapproval as rapidly as I did. This was new to me. . . . The new path I was traveling was leading directly to the land of 'self-importance'-that impossible mental state...