Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States Government has . . . taken a step backward into the darkness of the Middle Ages," snapped crusty old Editor Jacob Seibert last week in his Commercial & Financial Chronicle, referring to the decision to pay Government gold bond interest in paper dollars. But U. S. Business took a big step forward. Chart-watchers throughout the land happily eyed certain thick black indexes creeping slowly above the line of May 1932. For the first time in four long years of Depression, they said, U. S. Business was definitely better than it had been twelve months before. Automobile production for the third successive...
...Mussolini who said, "Treaties are not eternal." And it was MacDonald who went the next logical step and declared that if there must be revision, it is better that it come through peaceful, diplomatic channels, than by a war which might involve all Europe. Put these two statements together, and there follows the proposal for a conference among the Big Four of Europe to decide on Treaty Revision. But France and her Allies have come out fiatly against such a conference. Last Tuesday, Foreign Minister Benes of Czechoslovakia, and the brains behind the Little Entente, declared that the frontiers could...
...Inflation once started feeds upon itself and soon gets completely out of control. . . . This bill may well constitute the first step on the road to ruin. ... It is unthinkable that there should be vested in any individual the arbitrary power to alter at will the value of money. . . . Prices may rise, but they will rise as a result of fear not of confidence, and no permanent prosperity can be erected on any such base...
Last week Budgeteer Douglas took a long step toward that goal when, through the White House, he submitted to Congress his estimates for the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill. At the last session was passed a similar measure carrying $1,083,567,534, of which $966,838,634 was for veterans. On March 4 President Hoover vetoed it because of Congress' failure to reduce pensions. In the revised version of this supply measure for warded to the Capitol, Director Douglas asked for only $615,159,926 - a clear saving of $468,407,608 due almost entirely to President Roosevelt...
...concentrator in English nears his graduation, that time when Harvard ceases to be a teacher and becomes a dues-collecting unit of freemasonry, he will step out into the world tolerably well-acquainted with Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden, Tennyson and other literary worthies. He may even know the encyclopaedic facts concerning the French Romanticists of the gaslit era and the battlefields of the Sturm und Drang may be an open book to him. But it is questionable whether or not he is sufficiently prepared to keep his calm in a world of raucous dust cover blurbs, eclectic modern poetry, and rumbling...