Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...erroneously regard the gold price of dollars as a prime mover of domestic prices, they may still overestimates the economic importance of foreign trade to the United States; but they can never again speak consistently of a "favorable" trade balance as such, and they can always, in the future, stay at least one move ahead of the people who do. For their measure has abjured in practice the desirability long since abjured in principle, of a national gold hoard, and has thus destroyed the single justification of using the term "favorable" in connection with trade balances...
...Moscow Press last week. Peasants in a dozen villages of the Soviet Far East were reported to have broken collective contracts signed not by them but for them by the local Soviets. The contracts bound the peasants to go out into the woods in sub-zero weather and stay there in lumber camps until they had cut specified quotas of wood...
...winning a fellowship which exempted him from examinations and permitted him to dig into the fine arts as well. Just before graduation in 1930 he said: "I don't claim to have sprouted wings. . . . But I have de veloped a growing enthusiasm and appreciation [for art] which will stay with...
...story that not Kipke but Earle Blaik, assistant coach at Army, should he made Yale's new football coach. Other papers continued to ballyhoo Kipke. Finally Coach Kipke gave an interview to the Associated Press at Ann Arbor in which he said he had definitely decided to stay at Michigan. This report served to quiet the story for three weeks. But right after the Christmas holidays it started again, more noisily than ever...
...Roosevelt, in his message to Congress, did not hesitate to say that the "reforms of the New Deal were here to stay," that "civilization could not go backward," and that a large number of his more important legislative measures must be permanent. By a majority of 5-4 the Supreme Court has approved a single feature of the great canon of emergency legislation; the personnel record of the court, the general surprise at Chief Justice Hughes' position, indicate that the majority hinges upon him. The minority opinion of Justices Sutherland, Butler, McReynolds, and van Devanter might have been written...