Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget should be balanced. But if, on the other hand, there is no such qualifying consideration, then the flat money should be issued and the budget should not be balanced. There appears to be no such definition of issues at Washington. The inflationists admit that they would resort to the strychnine of rising prices in order to keep the patient alive through an extraordinary crisis. And the advocates of sound money insist that rising prices will kill the patient. So President Roosevelt is administering the deadly herb in mild applications...
Milwaukee's troubles stemmed largely from Mayor Hoan's refusal to cut city salaries beyond the voluntary 10% deduction set aside for relief. Taxpayers had to resort to the initiative & referendum to chip $7,000,000 off the 1933 budget. Municipal employes went unpaid during April, May and June while, the city hoarded cash to meet its bond interest payments. A grand jury, discovering a $500,000 embezzlement of city funds, indicted Comptroller Louis M. Kotecki for failing to discover the loss in his treasury audits. One day two months ago Kotecki shot himself dead after wounding...
Statesmen of small countries have to do undignified things. Last week small Austria's minuscule Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (he is less than five feet tall) flew to the Adriatic beach resort of Riccione for a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini, found him swimming offshore and disinclined to come in. For Chancellor Dollfuss to have waited abjectly on the beach would have been too undignified. He hired a small skiff, rowed out to where Il Duce was floating on his back...
...were determined to give away no secrets to potential enemies. The Foreign Office warned all embassy attaches to carry identification cards "to avoid inconvenience." Enthusiastic war-game players sharply questioned many a foreigner on Tokyo's excited streets. The U. S. naval attaches discreetly withdrew to the summer resort of Karuizawa, 87 mi. from Tokyo...
...misadventure he had. He bought the bonds of Hinsdale County, Colo., and tried to get people to go there as a resort. To that end he built a group of luxurious cabins in an old mining settlement, invited people from far & wide to come as his guests. Then he was charged with conspiring with officials of the County to buy up its bonds at 30? on the dollar and get them refunded dollar for dollar. He was to have gone on trial on that charge Aug. 11. He did not, because Governor Landon ordered his arrest...