Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political demon is fusty! And what else should a demon be if not ruthless? As to the propriety of liberals feeling distrust for the Senator because they have been disgusted by personal contact with him, that is something which it would take an ingenious liberal to explain. But prudent delvers in English must refuse to believe that character can be guarded by a bodyguard. A bodyguard may keep strangers from whanging a Senator in the eye, but a Senator's character needs far different and subtler protection...
Year ago last week the prudent directors of U. S. Steel Corp. pared their preferred dividend from $7 to $2 a share. Big Steel had just piled up a staggering deficit of $91,891,867.85. Last week when the directors of the biggest U. S. industrial corporation met to ponder dividends at No. 71 Broadway, Manhattan, they had before them the annual report for 1933. Against an operating loss of $12,729,000 in 1932 was an operating profit of $18,439,000. To this was added special income of $1,335,000. But from that total was deducted...
...administration by a scandalous indifference to public needs. ... To say the American institutions demand a continuance of this dreary and futile process comes as a shock and a disillusionment to the people of this city. . . . "You talk about dictatorship. None has been proposed. I am asking sound city management. Prudent businessmen . . . recognize it as business management. Politicians call it dictatorship. . . . We cannot effect economies with platitudes, nor can we balance our budget with an essay. . . . Your charge comes as a hollow mockery to the overburdened taxpayers ... of the City who, for more than a decade, have suffered as cruel...
...result, the condition of Newfoundland is "desperate." both politically and financially, according to the Royal 'Commission headed by that uncompromising, vinegar-tongued Scot, Sir William Warrender Mackenzie, ist Baron Amulree of Strathbraan. Last week prudent Lord Amulree had put the Atlantic between himself and Newfoundland when his Commission's report was published simultaneously in London and at St. John's. It declared 'that Newfoundland's chief industry-fisheries-is rotten to the core, that Newfoundland fishermen have become, under a "vicious credit system," practically the serfs of the merchants of St. John...
...Russo-Japanese War, grizzled old Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo, to join him in an appeal for discipline. To all Naval yards and stations Minister Osumi manifestoed: "Fleet Admiral Count Togo has just sent us a message concerning the necessity for Navy men to preserve mental composure, being prudent as to their utterances and conduct and ever remaining loyal to their duties. . . . The time is an extraordinary one and we ask you to redouble your efforts in loyal service...