Word: prods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thousands of closed banks remained a pothole in the road to Recovery. Last week the President was preparing to prod the R. F. C. on toward reopening them by buying their preferred stock, thereby releasing billions of frozen deposits as new purchasing power...
...Council on Pharmacy & Chemistry last week refused to approve the use of the compound as a medicine. Dinitrophenol of which they all were so fearful promises to be a vigorous prod for sluggards and a subtle weapon for murderers. It is a yellow, crystalline powder closely related to picric acid (of which explosives and ointments for burns are made). It costs only $12 a pound and is easily purchasable...
Chafing at delay, the Democratic National Congressional Committee made Oklahoma's McClintic chairman of a patronage board to prod the Administration for more jobs. Representative McClintic discovered that of the 800 places in the Library of Congress, only 50 were held by party followers. He wanted something done about that right away. He also found that Presidents Harding, Coolidge & Hoover had by executive order "blanketed" into the Civil Service 4,500 jobs. Representative McClintic wanted President Roosevelt to issue another executive order blanketing them...
...minority, whether it is destined to held office or not, can be effective as a prod to those in power, and a large progressive vote can frighten a government controlled by vested interests into correcting at least its grosser delinquencies. Moreover, a strong Socialist vote will have the effect of consolidating the issues, which are not properly brought out by Democratic-Republican rivalry. It will give the conservative stand one core, instead of its separate and erratic spheres of action in the two old parties, and will make a vote for, or a vote against this stand, both more decisive...
...food and mail order companies. Big loans to railroads would mean orders for the equipment companies. But for the most part the rally was predicated upon hopes. Big Hope No. i was that the Administration was somehow in back of the market, would let no harm befall it, would prod bear flanks unmercifully. Big Hope No. 2 was that there was "something in the air." To assist this second hope, the Press of the land last week got behind the market and shoved amain. Every isolated plant to recall a few workers, every company to show good earnings, every regular...