Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Answer: Progressive opinion is against any such wholesale nationalization. It demands that governments insist on principles of prudent investment, elimination of stock juggling inflation and on competent commissions; that the people shall have the right to engage in the production of power by their own determination; the elimination of corruption and undercover propaganda by utility interests...
...said Maitre Louis Gassin, her principal attorney. "The fact that my client bought two months ago the revolver with which she shot and killed her husband does not indi- cate premeditation. . . . She simply purchased the weapon for use in case of ex-treme emergency to defend her life. How prudent this action...
...true that any place where "old" Dr. Peabody of blessed memory used to preach and Mr. Longfellow used to go of a Sunday ought to carry its benediction; but it strikingly failed to carry it in its face. The cost of building having fallen, a prudent corporation is talking of putting up the memorial chapel. Some of the children are bawling in the college papers with that zeal which sounds so funny to their elders, long vaccinated against any excess of that quality. Cambridge and Boston are chock full of churches. What's the use of building a church where...
...date cruiser of 10,000 tons, to steam to the U. S. Naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba. "Guantanamo," announced the State Department, "is three days less steaming distance to Brazil than Hampton Roads. . . . In view of the uncertainty as to the future situation in Brazil it has been felt prudent to have a ship nearer the zone of disturbance to take off American refugees should such action be necessary for the protection of their lives...
There is plenty of theoretical argument against branchbanking. There is also much sentiment against it, for oldtime U. S. banking tradition is one of local "unit" independence (the local small-town banker a fatherly financial shepherd to his local flock). Also, for practical purposes, potent bankers have found it prudent to disclaim any intention of becoming more potent lest such designs should offend small bankers who, meanwhile, must be their principal customers. Therefore, the merging-grouping trend had to move until it had half-swept the nation before the A. B. A. dared approve it. And even last week...