Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also won the designation of the American Labor Party in his district. To be sure of getting all the anti-Roosevelt votes available in November, Nominee O'Connor last week prepared to run also as an Andrew Jackson Democrat. Should he win under that label it might save for him his chairmanship of the Rules Committee which must otherwise be taken from him as an elected Republican. To oust him from that post was, in fact, the Purge's chief aim in his case. For the Rules Committee, with power of life & death over much legislation (unless...
...take it from the police. If they lack money, they rob a British bank. If annoyed at Jewish ownership of land, they destroy deed records in the Land Registry Office. Not one British policeman risks murder by patrolling Jerusalem streets after midnight. Knickerbocker conclusions: "Nowhere in the British Empire, save perhaps among the savage tribes of the Northwest Frontier [India], do such conditions of disorder and contempt for British authority exist as today in Palestine...
...romantic bad man and all the melodramatic hokum ever devised, including the widder woman preyed upon by the wily banker. And if this side does not please sophisticated Broadway as it once pleased a gaslit Bowery, there is Playwright Ginty's nimble kidding and drawling backwoods humor to save...
...with sincere regret" the resignation of FCA Governor William I. Myers, who is returning to Cornell to teach, Franklin Roosevelt promoted Deputy Governor Forrest Frank Hill to his job. "Frosty" Hill has been with FCA since it was created in 1933 to merge a handful of uncoordinated agencies and save the U. S. farmer from foreclosure. As a boy he worked on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, got a first-hand knowledge of soil problems. A shrewd banker with an incredible memory for figures, Governor Hill still talks like the farmer he was born in Kansas...
These recognized depression phenomena have already given rise to one New Deal theory, that "Saving makes a rainy day" (because savings are translated into loans to industry, increasing fixed charges). This theory, of which the leading exponent is David Cushman Coyle (a consulting engineer of the National Resources Board), arrives at the inevitable conclusion that the way to prevent depressions is to reduce savings by heavy taxation on the people who save, i.e., the well-to-do. The New Deal is already putting it in practice...