Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Really, it is all very puzzling-you men must be in your daily life honest, intelligent and educated or you would not be where you are, but having in your hands an instrument of publicity reaching thousands of readers you drop your principles and resort to sneaking actions which you would scorn in your private life...
...pathology of political science. After one year of churning and fuming, and after Mr. Johnson's conference, the measurable results are only these, that the administration has built up a large and unsanctioned machinery for the control of industry, that it must either abandon the machinery, or resort, as Mr. Johnson threatens, to the fascist (or the communist) dictatorship that can sanction it. POLLUX
...obligations. There can now be no doubt that those who find themselves, through no fault of their own, displaced in recurring periods of depression must be provided for by Government, with funds raised from the taxpayers. If no better method can be thought of, we are constrained to resort to the dole. But should not every effort be made to avoid this demoralizing form of public charity? The people of Massachusetts are willing to contribute to any stricken section of the country; but is there no limit...
...girl." It is interesting to know that before every meal each of the waitresses in the Union must pass in review and execute an about-face in front of Miss Murray. Any traces of powder, rouge or lipstick call for serious rebuke. Little wonder that many of the waitresses resort to the Tent and Normandie ballrooms for relief. Well, despite our old-fashioned regulations, perhaps the situation down at Yale is worse. There no waitresses under 25 years of age are hired...
...comes to demonstrating the positive dangers in the policy, Professor Sprague beats around any number of bushes without ever coming to the point. He apparently felt, in writing the articles, that when the effort to raise internal prices by exchange depreciation was seen to be unsuccessful, the Administration would resort to the issue of paper currency. Or if not this, at least that the fear of such inflationary measures, leading to distrust of the currency, would be sufficient to cause business men to delay commitments, banks to fear withdrawals, and the public generally to steer clear of bonds, especially government...