Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem of raising business ethics to higher standards is a problem of American business in general. Having been connected with other industries, I have been impressed with many of the comparatively higher standards that prevail in the scrap iron industry. Millions of dollars of business have been conducted over the telephone every week without any written contracts, and it is extremely rare in my experience that such obligations have not been filled...
...more practical than Kellogg's and the late Aristide Briand's: "It seems to me that the only way to prevent future wars is to make people afraid of war. If the probability of death and torture is made sufficiently high the spirit of adventure will not prevail against it." With no pretense at being a philosopher, he can be as effectively philosophical as Schopenhauer: "Christ who called us sons of God, and Swift who called us little odious vermin, are both making a quite unnecessary fuss about almost nothing...
...Bonus? Senator McAdoo, as head of the War Risk Insurance, had written policies for more than $35,000,000,000. Reconstruction Finance Corp.? Senator McAdoo had headed War Finance Corp. after which R. F. C. was patterned. Against such massed omniscience few Senators could prevail in debate...
...Fear and alarm prevail because of events in Washington which have greatly disturbed the public mind. . . . Nothing is more necessary than balancing the Budget. Nothing will put more heart into the country than prompt and courageous and united action. . . . The details plainly require: 1) prompt enactment of a revenue bill ... to distribute the burdens equitably; 2) a drastic program of economy . . . $230,000,000 below the executive budget...
...this direction. For better or worse, the Freshmen have been shown the college; they must now decide whether they want to remain there. If they still desire an undergraduate engineering course it is best that they live together in a separate dormitory where a truly professional atmosphere can prevail. One of the University dormitories outside the House Plan should certainly be appointed for such...