Word: reasonsable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assuming that all the 75,000,000 adult inhabitants of the U. S. could be induced to buy admission to a birthday ball, tickets would have to be priced at $10 a head to raise the $550,000,000 required to pay for the New Deal's AAA substitute...
A fiscal syllogism fateful for Europe last week was this: Developments in Washington tended to weaken confidence in the dollar and make it fall; therefore the British Exchequer, which is resolved for reasons of trade not to let the dollar become much cheaper than the pound, took steps to weaken...
Umpires, like thieves and executioners, lead extrasocial lives. In public, they are customarily hated by the players whose doings they adjudicate, scorned by the crowds who watch them. In private, they follow the same itinerary as baseball players but travel on different trains, stop at different hotels. To relieve the...
Astute and worldly Pierre Laval took one look last week at the impossible situation created for his Cabinet by the resignation of its Radical Socialist members for internal party reasons and refused to go before the Chamber of Deputies.
Just what had occurred in the intervening 60 days to make Mr. Eccles change his tune was not explained. But plausible reasons included a sizeable expansion in brokers' loans; a strong resurgence of inflation fever; and, since the present Reserve Board retires in a body this week, an unwillingness...