Word: solvent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macomb. Ill., Macomb National Bank was forced to issue a hurry call for money. The bank was solvent, but heat had swelled the vault door so it would not open...
...proved a stubborn foe. Like the multiple-headed Hydra, no sooner is one head chopped off when another grows out. [Hoover's] creating jobs did not solve the unemployment problem. His stopping immigration did not give every American a job. His banking reforms did not make every bank solvent. His farm measures did not pay off the debt on every farm. But [his] tactics saved the day. We have prevented disorders, riots, social upheavals. We have cared for the needy, we have averted panic and catastrophe. . . . The United States is tranquil, solvent and confident...
...Just a word on taxes. Government costs too much. We must abolish useless offices, merge . . . consolidate . . . give up. . . . I propose that government of all kinds be made solvent and that the example be set by the President and his Cabinet...
...constituents Candidate Briand used to boast, "I have never owned a stock or a bond!" Scorning finance, he was careful only to remain solvent. In his minute apartment when he died were 6,000 francs ($240), in his bank account 80,000 francs...
...give jobs to 55 per cent of those who applied for them. This means that, perhaps a great number of students have had to leave college for financial reasons. The student who is working to pay his bills realizes the possibilities of a college education, as many more solvent are incapable of doing. He takes advantage of these possibilities, and for this reason, if for no other, he should be given encouragement...