Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this problem. Obviously, if unemployment is to be dealt with constructively, it is necessary to have some measurement of its extent. At the present time, however, there are practically no dependable statistics collected in the United States on unemployment. In the winter of 1927, for example, extensive discussion took place in Congress and elsewhere regarding the current unemployment, but to this day no one knows even approximately how much unemployment existed at that time. Hence Mr. Hoover wisely has stressed the importance of providing for the regular monthly compilation of records of unemployment, and here in Massachusetts Representative Shattuck...
...rediscount rates, here again it is the province of the twelve Reserve banks (not of the board) to initiate rate changes?. Here the Reserve banks have a specific and unquestioned method of making it expensive to borrow money. But this method cannot be indiscriminately applied. In the first place, a high discount rate will attract money from foreign countries. More important, however, is the fact that the Reserve bank cannot make it harder for the speculator to borrow money without making it correspondingly harder for the businessman or the farmer to borrow money. A rise for one is a rise...
...play Good Samaritan to God's frozen children. The laudable, or lamentable tendencies of Labrador missionaries in the past has been to return happily married to one no more, certainly--of the missionary nurses. Since the career of an undergraduate at Yale automatically ends at the altar rail, this place of advice may prove like the boomerang which circles back to decapitate its thrower. If the Yale student returns unmarried, the chances are he will be so much in love that, unable to eat, sleep, or drink, he will be able to do nothing but wander aimlessly around the quadrangle...
...course, would begin, and we might follow him with Doughty (also in line for his poetry) Conrad, and W. H. Hudson. Bear in mind that these are popular and "sell" and also that they are "classics"--beyond a human doubt. De Morgan is your modern Dickens and in place of Charles Lamb there is Max Beerbohm and a worthy modern equivalent he is. Follow him with James Stephens, possibly Machen, and Aldous Huxley. Hudson leads us to Cunninghame, Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett and for Leslie Stephen, Lytton Strachey! It will...
...Saturday the University Class B team won the championship of the Massachusetts squash league competition, when it defeated Lincoln's Inn Society 3 to 2. The winners won 35 games during the season, and lost only 10; they maintained a lead of at least five games on the second-place University Club throughout the competition...