Word: rising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...destructive operation of governmental conduct of commercial business. Because the country is faced with difficulty and doubt over certain national problems - that is,« prohibition, farm relief and elec trical power - our opponents propose that we must thrust government a long way into the businesses which give rise to these problems. In effect they abandon the tenets of their own party and turn to State socialism. . . . We are confronted with a huge program of government in business . . . based on principles de structive of its [the "American system's"] very foundations." The three Smith proposals to which Nominee Hoover referred...
...second is intolerance. Every one of your ancestors and mine came to this country because they believed that here was equal opportunity and religious tolerance, that any boy of brains and integrity could rise as high as his own talents would permit...
...Messrs. Huston and Reece have sharp intraparty differences with Mr. Taylor. But it was planned, for harmony's sake, to let Mr. Taylor be as big a lion as anyone in receiving Nominee Hoover. It was planned that, at the luncheon of the day, Mr. Reece should rise to welcome the Nominee, and that Mr. Taylor should then rise to praise him. Both wrote out fine speeches. The hour and the Nominee arrived...
...stock began a sustained, sensational rise. Its low for the year, 117, was reached on Jan. 19. By Feb. 8, it had hit 149¼. Responding to the two brief periods of market weakness, it lost 20 points in the last week of February, won them back, then lost 10 points in the week ending June 16. Sharp and spectacular was its recovery. It soared...
...three-cornered battle of four years ago will hardly be rated as less bitter and less sturdily fought in the nation than the 1928 contest; and unless indifference has wedged its way into a tremendous number of students since that year, the undergraduate clubs have sadly failed to rise to a point be fitting the circumstances...