Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that one of Schaaf's two managers is Champion Jack Sharkey and the other is Champion Sharkey's manager, fat Johnny Buckley. Next bout on the Schaaf program would properly be against huge Primo Camera with the winner to meet Sharkey for the title. This prospect seemed drab because 1) Sharkey has already beaten Camera, 2) it would seem improper for Schaaf to fight his own comanager. As a preliminary step toward straightening out the difficulty, Manager Buckley last week agreed to cancel his contract with Schaaf...
...Nationalist Party of himself and Premier Hertzog. Appealing to South African farmers he told them that to go off the gold standard would mean "higher prices" for their produce-which it would, in depreciated Union pounds. Appealing to South Africa's mining interests he offered them the prospect of paying their golddiggers in devaluated paper while continuing to sell their gold abroad for its unvariable, basic value which is the cornerstone of international finance. Finally Judge Roos appealed to the arch enemy of his own Nationalist Party which he was trying to split-to Jan Christiaan Smuts...
...process of forgiving and forgetting has been long and never graceful; even the generous may be led to suspect that its belated culmination was hastened by the prospect of a remunerative spectacle so much needed for unhealthy budgets. The puerilities have been left in the past, and there is cause for rejoicing. The good offices of Yale and the Naval Academy in bringing about the reconciliation should not be forgotten. Beyond that, oblivion for the incident of 1926 is the most Harvard and Princeton can desire...
...spite of these drawbacks, the plan embodied in the bill has a definite prospect of success. The augment that it constitutes a consumers' tax, designed to shift to one class a tremendous amount of purchasing power, is no objection to the plan. Obviously that is the purpose of any farm relief scheme. The increased purchasing power of the farmer will soon make itself felt in the demand for industrial products. There can be no true prosperity in this country as long as a large part of the population is on the verge of bankrupted. Throughout the latter half...
...These criticisms are in some measure true, but the bill offers the most promising solution which has appeared for a problem which is becoming steadily more acute and which will have its own violent solution if Congress fails to provide one. The bill should not be turned down without prospect of a better...