Word: peg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Stone, on the other hand, was handicapped by a mass of economic policy which had not worked out well. He felt it necessary to defend the Board's past. He justified its price-pegging as an emergency operation which averted "an incalculable economic catastrophe." He reiterated explanations of the Board's announcement fortnight ago that it would not peg prices on the 1931 wheat crop (TIME, March 30). He said that what the Board did with its enormous wheat holdings depended largely on how much the farmers reduced planting. He hammered away at the intangibles of co-operative action...
...since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar. A Loan from the House of Morgan helped stabilize the French franc in 1926. Spain had had $25,000,000 from the same source in 1928 in a frantic effort to peg the falling peseta. Thought Alfonso, a Morgan Loan would be just the thing...
That, we dare suggest, might be the ninth wonder. Peg '32. Radcliffe Daily Letter...
Charles Pierre Baudelaire, born with the haughties, found a peg to hang a life-grievance on when his young widowed mother married a man he detested, General Aupick. Stepfather Aupick believed in discipline. Stepson Charles disbelieved in Aupick. When Charles began to roam Paris with Bohemian friends, General Aupick feared for his own careful reputation. Soon they quarreled openly and Charles went off to live by himself. In his way both a dandy and an ascetic, Baudelaire astonished even the Bohemians. His first mistress was a hideous, squint-eyed, consumptive Jewess off the streets. Then he met Jeanne Duval...
Calvin Coolidge last week indulged in his first major criticism of President Hoover. Just as the Federal Farm Board was preparing to spend its latest $150,000,000 in the wheat pit to peg prices...