Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly an eternal verity as anything can be in the chancy game of U. S. politics is the rule that the nation will not vote a party out of office when it feels that the times are prosperous and believes they will remain so. It was by that rule that Calvin Coolidge shaped his campaign in 1924, that Herbert Hoover made "permanent prosperity" with a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage the major theme of his campaign in 1928. Last week it became apparent that Franklin Roosevelt was waging a campaign for re-election which...
...mists of minor issues rolled away, that Alf Landon was playing his opponent's game. The New Deal had not helped but hindered the return of Prosperity, drummed the Republican Nominee; real Prosperity could not be said to exist while 11,000,000 citizens remained unemployed; Republican rule would bring greater Prosperity; New Deal spending threatened the foundations of future Prosperity. Meantime, as the Democratic Nominee coursed eastward from Colorado, drawing great crowds everywhere and everywhere demonstrating his mastery of them (see p. 12), he hammered again & again at a single thesis: the New Deal has restored Prosperity, will...
...majority of these laws appear on inspection to be rather old. For instance, the banana skin rule was last amended in 1902; it reads, "No person shall throw or place upon any sidewalk or cross-walk any banana skin, orange peel, or slippery substance...
Proof of the importance of the road in civilization appears in the amount of space devoted to it by the rule book. Cantabridgians appear to have been having trouble with their streets even before the Water Works Department first appeared to fear up the pavement by the Union...
...with exchange depreciation. The most important question raised is whether depreciation tends to raise prices in the markets of countries off gold or whether it tends more to depress prices in world markets. The weight of evidence is that the national prices tend to rise; as depreciation becomes the rule and not the exception, the pressure of world prices subsides; and even if present, becomes of little practical significance...