Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cared to exert themselves to hear. Unfortunately, not all who came listened. It was easier to sit back after the brave Star Spangled Banner and John Powell's Negro melodies from Dixie and wear a slightly supercilious smile. It is the approved attitude and thought to be eminently safe...
...Nebraska and several other States safe deposit companies were closed as well as banks; citizens who had salted away currency or gold were as badly off as others...
...fortnight ago that Henry Ford, veteran foe of bankers, was about to become the State's greatest banker by taking over the strapped Guardian National and First National of Detroit and running them under his own novel ideas ("The first duty of a bank is to be a safe repository for money"). Last week they learned that both banks had refused the Ford offer, changed their minds, were about to reorganize and carry on under new Federal and State emergency legislation. Delay in adopting the latter was partly traceable to antagonism between Detroit and out-state bankers, who were...
...camp affairs which enabled him to write one of the best chronicles from an historical standpoint. The reader must remember that this expedition was undertaken with a distinct religious purpose, the colonists all feeling that they were carrying out the will of God and were making the world safe for the Protestants. It is not difficult to realize this from a casual glance at the diary, which hardly lets a week pass without some mention of their religious activities or a record of the Sunday services...
...course," continued Professor Dewing, "it was perfectly natural that-with a multitude of banks operated by inexperienced men, far too many farm and real estate loans were granted. It is a survival of an almost medieval and perfectly natural belief that since land is tangible it must be a safe investment. The best proof of the fallacy of the idea is the fact that in Boston, where few real estate loans have been granted, the banks are absolutely liquid: within a few hours notice nearly every bank in Boston could pay every cent of its debts and still be solvent...