Word: saner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each other. The bears argue, and with reason, that the recent price advance in shares discounted more than amply any likely increase in the earning power of most U. S. listed companies for 1925; and that the subsequent fall in prices represents an adjustment from over-optimistic hopes to saner and more realistic estimates. But the bulls still urge, and with equal force, the ease in money. The U. S. is piling up steadily huge amounts of capital which virtually seek investment. Last year, much of it flowed into foreign loans, and much into home securities, driving up their price...
...Philadelphia, 2,000 men of law hushed their private conversations at the bang of Robert E. Lee Saner's gavel. Forthwith he, as President, opened the 47th Annual Convention of the American Bar Association...
Addresses. Mr. Saner, of Dallas: Denounced the growing tendency in Congress toward the enactment of sumptuary laws, as striking at the fundamentals of constitutional government (with particularly strong reference to Senator LaFollette's amendment to limit the power of the U. S. Supreme Court.) Likened the U. S. Government to the planetary system, wherein balancing of forces prevents chaos...
...Americans who favor the measure do so not from any love of this bill in itself, but because they want attention and aid for disabled veterans and decline to wait another six years for a saner program. President Coolidge's veto message declaring the bill "economically unsound and morally unjust" expresses to the letter the sincere belief of the overwhelming majority. The new legislation owes its impetus and success at this time, to the desire of an able, if unscrupulous, opposition to discomfit the President by forcing his hand. Their, act, after succeeding in only the latter point, is rapidly...
...willing to stand convicted of the crime of attempting to escape that deadly dryness that dogs the footsteps of every academic publication. If these are crimes it will suffer for them. But if, on the other hand, they are worth-while efforts, it stands to win. Safer and saner is that paper that "along the cool sequestered vale of life" pursues "the noiseless tenor of its way;" it risks nothing; it will lose nothing; it will win nothing--not even readers. But even at that there is something glorious about...