Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This step, he declared, was taken by His Majesty's Government "after the most anxious consideration and with much regret...
...prices started to sag badly (in accord with Dr. Warren's theory), had to be propped up by large Government purchases of wheat. On Oct. 22 the President over the radio announced that the RFC would begin setting its own price for gold. A week later when that step had failed materially to reduce the exchange value of the dollar, gold purchases were extended to the world market. Mr. Morgenthau along with Jesse Jones, the complaisant RFC chairman, and the reluctant Mr. Acheson, began to set the daily price of gold...
...early days as Premier: "Fascismo has already stepped, and, if need be, will quietly turn around to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty!" (TIME...
...Rumania, a mass protest by their retainers against the National Peasant Party Government. Last week Dino and his Liberals threatened King Carol: unless he let them form a Government they would fill Bucharest with at least 100,000 protest marchers. Craven, the King yielded, announcing "My people, this step is taken to prevent an outbreak of violence in the capital and its spread throughout Rumania...
...deflation) to offset whatever attempts the President may make to finance the Recovery Act with government bonds. Happy the fate of these self-appointed Watchers Over the President if through obstinate resistance to the administration they bring about direct government control of the Federal Reserve System as the first step towards nationalization of the entire banking system...