Word: risks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes a job without some reservations, some risk, but to think that any job at all will answer the perplexing question of what life work is best for him is absurd; he might better spend the time reading novels. This is not on idle suggestion, and if he were to sandwich in a few biographies he might learn much more about the world of work, enough at least to stimulate him to further investigation...
...prospective Supreme Court Justice afford to risk his chances of confirmation by gratuitously committing himself on some of the knottiest points in Labor Law, Torts, Equity, Constitutional Law and Federal Jurisdiction cooked up by the Ames Competition cookers in a long while...
...finally this year's pacifistic Neutrality Act. As the rest of the world appeared progressively to forget the horrors of war, the U. S. appeared progressively to forget all horrors save those of being itself involved in war. In this mood the U. S. may run the risk of taking an action so detrimental to its own interests as to produce later an equally strong reaction in the opposite direction, but it is in a salutary mood of reasonableness in dealing with Japan. And Secretary Hull, counseled on all sides not to act hastily, was in the strange position...
...light of these inconsistencies, can it be denied that 'confidence' and Mr. Roosevelt go ill together? The power to create a state of uncertainty in which no businessman or investor will incur risk is vested in the President of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt is the first President who thought fit to use that power. Every ounce of it was applied. Neither graphs, nor economic jargon, nor statistics are required to show how Mr. Roosevelt made the depression which should always bear his name. He created it by methods which were as direct as they were effective...
Handsome, big-chested, lusty Antony, easily bored, with ten mistresses to Caesar's one, seemed an even less likely fellow for any woman to hold for long. Cleopatra held him nearly 13 years. For her he deserted his brilliant wife Fulvia, his beautiful wife Octavia, risked a revolution to crown Cleopatra Queen of Egypt, risked the good opinion of posterity by making their three children his heirs, ignoring his four in Rome. Finally he divorced Octavia at the risk of war, the war which finished...