Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Morgenthau admitted that he favored the ultimate step, Government ownership, the New Deal's aim was well on the way to achievement: Carter Glass, still resolutely holding Senate subcommittee hearings on the Banking Act of 1935, appeared to be only postponing the accomplishment of the New Deal's will. Said he ironically: "If the President and the Secretary of the Treasury and the Governor of the Federal Reserve Board want a Government-owned central bank, notwithstanding the consistent opposition of the Democratic Party since the time...
...from engaging in a competitive devaluation race with other nations, we hold out to them a currency of such steadiness that the normal tendency may very well be for the rest of the world to move gradually toward practical exchange stabilization. If that can be achieved, the final step should come easily and almost of its own accord...
...hatred of the Federal Reserve System and its banker-managers. By last March he was calling the New Deal a flat failure largely because "President Roosevelt has compromised with the money changers." His savage attack in Cleveland last week led observers to believe that the President would have to step to the Coughlin whip or count the Priest lost...
...powers of a real dictator (TIME, May 6), all the world accepted the official explanation: Marshal Pilsudski's dictatorship was now nine years old. He wanted to see if the system was yet strong enough to stand on its own feet. If not he was ready to step in and take over the Presidency he had many times refused...
...their first-born "Shakespeare"; to aging Aunt Juliette, the Edwardian grande dame, wondering not if flirting had been wrong but if flirting was all; to Nurse Forbes, whose professionally cool head had at last conquered her hot heart; and back to Francesca again, listening for her husband's step on the stairs...