Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buck up Republican campaign morale. Republican editors talked of a turn in the tide. But while President Hoover was speaking at Des Moines two Democrats, by shaking hands at Albany, stole the next morning's headlines. Grain prices broke to the season's low while the stockmarket suffered the sharpest decline in nearly a year...
...Sharpest blow in the Long Island contest was aimed at Nominee Whitney by sharp-tongued Editor Julian Starkweather Mason of the Society-struck New York Evening Post: "He has conducted the usual amateur campaign. . . . Stories of his heavy contributions to the Democratic campaign fund grew. . . . Reports increased that his party managers did not expect him to win but were going to 'take care of him if Roosevelt won by giving him Trubee Davison's job [Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics] at Washington. . . . Young men with the political morals of Cornelius V. Whitney should not be welcomed to our public...
Much of the improvement in sentiment was caused by a turnabout in important commodities. The Annalist index of prices for July rose to 92.2 from 88.6 in June, the sharpest gain for one month since this index was first compiled in 1925. All the ground lost since early February was made up. The gain was apparently touched off by hogs, although the rise in petroleum last April was an indication of what might happen. While hogs had re-actecLfrom their highs of late June (TIME, July 11), last week they made up much of the loss. After hogs, cattle began...
...debt as "a benefit to the thousands of investors in the bonds & securities of the railroad and in the general public interest." Then he swung into a discussion of the "masses"-or what Franklin Delano Roosevelt calls "the forgotten man" in his political orations.* Rasped General Dawes at his sharpest and shrillest: "It's the mass attitude that controls and. this mass attitude is changing from pessimism to optimism. Take a look at agriculture and the ordinary business of the country and compare them with the picayunish antics on the New York Stock Exchange. The whole country, it seems...
...Giantism". Sharpest and most studious of criticisms were voiced in Manhattan where a Round Table Conference on Utility Regulation was being held by almost 100 commission members and regulation students. Finance Professor James Cummings Bonbright of Columbia University, Secretary of the Power Authority of the State of New York, spoke on "The Breakdown of the Public Utility Holding Company." Utilitymen read his speech with keen interest for they knew Professor Bonbright to be a cousin of the late William Prescott Bonbright and of Irving W. Bonbright, co-founders of Bonbright & Co., utility bankers...