Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London poor & pious National Prime Minister MacDonald deemed it prudent not to put the Mother Country's new schedules into effect until after a fulldress debate in the London House of Commons, sitting this week. If he takes part in this debate (necessarily defending his government and the Ottawa agreements) Scot MacDonald will thus signalize his complete and final break with Socialism to which all tariffs are anathema...
...proposed: 1) full publicity for all capital investments, all stock and bond ownership, all inter-company contracts; 2) regulation of holding companies by the Federal Power Commission; 3) rates based not, as now, on reproduction costs, but upon that portion of the original plant investment which could be called "prudent"; 4) a criminal statute against false and deceptive matter relating to public utilities...
...McDonald Observatory, probably among the Davis Mountains in Jeff Davis County, Tex. Chicago's smart President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Texas' prudent President Harry Yandell Benedict made the deal. Texas will pay for the telescope, buildings, maintenance, and publications. Chicago will pay salaries of the. astronomical staff and will provide special working paraphernalia, such as photographic materials. Director of new McDonald and old Yerkes Observatories is Russian-born-&-educated Dr. Otto Struve, 35, astrophysicist, who last July succeeded his chief, blind Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, as director of Yerkes...
...defendants made prudent inquiry into the ... affairs of International," Irving Trust charged in the complaint, "or had they exercised a reasonable and prudent management of International, or had . . . caused to be presented to them . . . certified audits made in accordance with standard accounting methods, or had . . . properly discharged their duties ... all the misapplication, conversion, waste, depletion and loss of International's assets would have been prevented...
Proponents of liberal Federal care for veterans argue that a wide open U. S. medical kit is sound social service by the Government, that it also is prudent business sense. The veterans carry Government insurance policies worth hundreds of millions. Every year the Government collects premiums on those policies. The longer the policyholders live or avoid incapacities, the more premiums the Government collects, the less expensive will be the final insurance payments...