Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being thoroughly convinced of the divine goodness of capitalism, often carries the best account of developments in Washington, for it has no qualms about stating things baldly. Its account reads: "The most vigorous pressure from business convinced officials that to grant it (labor's demand) would wreck the present relationship built up in NRA. Industrialists who made the representations to Hugh S. Johnson came away satisfied." Amazing how "convincing" "vigorous pressure" can be, and so "satisfactory...
This committee will meet in the near future to discuss plans for obtaining a series of lectures by famous men, explaining the relationship of their fields with undergraduate education. The committee will also consider a plan for publishing one or two outstanding honors theses each year. These plans have been proposed in an effort to make the Phi Beta Kappa an active organization, instead of the mere passive, honorary society that...
...well over a half a century the Harvard-Yale game has dominated a natural and spontaneous rivalry. Keeping pace with the gradual development of two similar universities, this friendly relationship has always been a major vitalizing force in athletics at Harvard. In other sports as well as in football, athletes have come to regard their chance to play against a team from New Haven as the climax of the season. It is a comforting though that, no matter how much whittling of the Harvard Athletic program, an uncertain financial future or the growth of inter-House sports may make necessary...
...spears in the past have been price-cuts and letters to his stockholders impaling his Akron neighbors. This time the spear-thrower was the U. S. Government. The Federal Trade Commission last week charged that Goodyear, world's biggest tiremaker. has been enjoying an un holy relationship with Sears, Roebuck & Co., biggest U. S. mail-order house. Said the Commission: "Respondent [Goodyear] has since May, 1926, discriminated in price . . . between the different purchasers of its products by giving and allowing Sears, Roebuck & Co. a lower price . . . than purchasers competitively engaged in said line of commerce, and also by giving...
Stripped of its technicalities, the commodity dollar is a means of keeping the unit of value in constant relationship to price changes. It is a perfect theory and in a financial Utopia would work excellently. But since governments are not immune from politics and manipulation, especially abroad, where central banks and governments are in intimate contact every day, the chances of a practical and sound method of maintaining a unit of value by the commodity standard are remote...