Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound basis upon which to formulate his demands and a reliable indication of the true success of his program, Mr. Roosevelt would no longer be torn between two factions demanding from one to three billions for relief, and Presidential estimates would cease to be an economically unscientific but politically prudent mean between...
...eyed, energetic Episcopalian whose only frivolity was playing his flute, Jay Cooke was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1821, grew up in a hot Abolitionist country, served his apprenticeship in St. Louis, got into Philadelphia banking at the age of 18. Since his marriage in 1844 was happy, his prudent investments in railroads and Western lands profitable, his early career was so unexciting that it appears in his biography as little more than a record of the jobs he held...
What SEC wants is to jack up the standards of corporate trusteeship to the high level of personal trusteeship, the responsibilities of which have been clearly defined through centuries of court decisions. In law a personal trustee is supposed to act like a mythical character called the "prudent man." That implies active defense of the beneficiaries' interests and a definite liability for losses through negligence. But the combined skill of lawyers representing the borrower, the banker and the trustee (but never the investor) have reduced the duties of corporate trusteeship to a few clerical motions, the liabilities to virtually...
...plaster statuet of Justice went sail ing through the air, crashed against the wall. Like prudent woodchucks the three judges ducked, shouting orders to clear the court. All over the courtroom Fascists and police were mixing it up. Furious Primo de Rivera kicked impotently at the panels of the bench itself, swept off files of papers...
...your reverent treatise of same. Have been flooded with letters. . . . You may be asked about the price of pamphlet. Sells 18? by mail, eight for $1, and 100 for $8. My motive for publishing it was for its own good, not for any remuneration. I appreciate your prudent co-operation in bringing about a sane understanding regarding this case of possession...