Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion among the members of the Senate and House of Massachusetts. When interviewed yesterday State Senator Harry B. Putnam, who is active in liquor control work, said. "There is no harm in selling liquor to men over twenty-one, and since the liquor bill contains a provision prohibiting sale of liquor to anyone under this age, I see no reason why the tavern should be kept from Harvard Square. However, I do not believe that any system permitting the sale of beer to persons over eighteen and other liquors to those over twenty-one would be advisable...
...their being hired by richer men, and so led finally to the division into capitalistic and wage-earning classes. A few of the poor free men being more ingenious than the rest, turned then talents to the manufacture of goods offered first for barter and later for sale. Here we have the beginning of the artisan class. At a later date the merchant class sprang up to facilitate the process of exchange...
...government can float, simply by virtue of the control which it can exercise over the Federal Reserve System through the enactment of some simple legislation. If it became necessary, for example, a slight change in the existing laws relating to the Federal Reserve System would make possible the direct sale of large quantities of government bonds to the Federal Reserve banks against the creation of deposits in the account of the government...
...unreasoning to suppose that the President knows what he is doing in the matter of gold buying. For he knows that the cry of terror about the government's credit is meaningless in view of the ever present possibility of forcing the sale of an unlimited quantity of bonds to the Federal Reserve Banks at par. And perhaps he only pretends that he expects to raise prices by buying gold, that he even expects or wants to raise prices at all. A good way of convincing foreign countries that the gold buying policy is not intended "artificially" to stimulate American...
...sell and when not to sell, all the hazard will be taken out of the banking and investment business. . . . We thought the market would show an upturn and I still think that, with the situation as it was at that time, we should have held the securities for future sale. . . . Among the securities . . . were 4,941 shares of Middle West Utilities. I advised her to sell some and she said she wanted to retain at least 2,000 shares because her husband knew Samuel Insull quite well and had great confidence in him and his stocks." Mrs. Busby, her good...