Word: quickening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easy Money. To quicken French enterprise Premier Flandin has insisted that money rates must be eased, and to get them down he had to fire the National Tightwad, respected M. Clément Moret, since 1930 Governor of the Bank of France (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week new Governor Jean Tannery was ready to play loose-wad. The play, long since approved by the Cabinet and hashed over in the Press, consisted in presenting the Chamber of Deputies last week with a bill at which extreme conservatives screamed "Inflation...
...danger that inter-house debating, like so many good and moral things, may be too delicate a flower for the harsh breath of existence, and so fall and wither away from lack of strength. The one iron and strychnine tonic to prevent this disaster is Interest. To quicken interest there is one sure formula, to capture fancy in the topic for debate. If the sponsors of the innovation act wisely, they will not choose exotic and ephemeral topics for their discussions, such as the intellectual status of the undergraduate, or the advisability of placing drinking fountains in Mallinckrodt...
...never carries on the exciting warfare of principle, it is never inflamed by the ardor of a great cause. Mr. G. K. Chesterton points out that large playing blocks are devised not to startle children, but to put them at their ease; headlines modelled in their likeness do not quicken mental inertia, but play upon it in vast and obvious fashion. By all means let us have sensational journalism; sensational as the Irish journalism of Victoria's time was sensational, for by its aid we may stimulate the populace, if not to thought, at least to passion. But the tedious...
...unsafest place in the world to have a baby. Some reasons: abortions; faulty technic of physician or nurse, resulting in puerperal infection; lack of sufficient good maternity hospitals; insufficient obstetrical training for the general physician; inadequate prenatal care; prevalence of attempts to shorten labor by use of pituitrin to quicken uterine contractions, application of forceps, turning of the baby, forced dilation of the cervix, caesarean operations...
...depositors in accordance with a vigorous and highly successful attempt to make the bank safe for depositors. If the loans are never paid back, the bank's stockholders will suffer, not the depositors. Example: whether to "close out" a frozen loan at a loss or to attempt to quicken it back to life is a banker's daily problem. On Cuban Sugar, the bank decided wrongly. But again, no depositor suffered, for the very reason that the risk was transferred from the bank to security affiliate. And as for stockholders: the bank stock they secured...