Word: slidings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This made things all the tougher for Chairman Landis' successor, terse, left-wing William O. Douglas. Damned as a radical and faced with the continuing slide of the market, Bill Douglas took over in September, soon let it be known that so far as he was concerned regulation had only begun. After three years on the SEC in lesser jobs, Chairman Douglas was all too familiar with the Exchange's standard method of passing the buck. Under the influence of Richard Whitney, no longer president but still boss of the board of governors' Old Guard majority...
Independent on ice, they will neither stand up nor fall down but slide sideways, and some times sit down and propel like a pup with a bite...
...authors of Were We Guinea Pigs? though critical, are not cynical about their school. They complain that a few of their courses were disappointing, admit that a student without initiative may "slide along," object that at times some of their friendly teachers "have tended to become a little too personal...
Bank Credit (loans and investments in 101 cities) dropped to $20,536,000,000, a two-and-a-half year low, continuing a steady ten-month slide. The complete sluggishness of business was demonstrated by its ever-waning interest in commercial loans. In New York City, an apparent reversal of the trend-an almost unparalleled rise of $465,000,000 in bank credit- was actually a confirmation of the condition. The temporary fluctuation was caused by banks (having more & more difficulty in finding investments) buying up huge quantities of maturing Treasury obligations so as to be able to turn them...
Veteran John Clark at the bow slide is one of the most versatile oarsmen in the boat, having rowed port for some time before being considered a candidate for number seven...