Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another step in the reduction of student living costs was the lowering of room rents in the Houses, which was announced several months ago. Under this reduction, average yearly rent in the Houses will be reduced from about $300 to $264, and the number of rooms at $260 or below will be increased from 681 to 1,000, of which 184 are priced at $140 a year or less...
...deposit vault. It invests your money, puts it to work. . .. What, then, happened? There was a general rush so great that the soundest banks could not get enough currency to meet the demand. ... It was then that I issued the proclamation providing for the nationwide bank holiday. . . . The second step was the legislation promptly and patriotically passed by Congress confirming my proclamation and broadening my powers...
...taken 50 years to develop the great financial system of the U.S. which is now prostrate and in ruins. We cannot rebuild it in a day or a week. We can only do it step by step...
...step we take leads upward toward the light. . . . The people have summoned a leader whose face is lifted toward the skies. We shall follow that leadership until we again stand in the glorious sunlight of prosperity and happiness...
...business men asked last week, did Mr. Aldrich step off the reservation? Was it banking inexperience? Winthrop Aldrich, yachtsman son of Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, late Rhode Island Senator, was a lawyer until 1929 when he was made president of his brother-in-law's Equitable Trust Co. (merged a year later with Chase). Was it a war between the Rockefellers and Morgan? The Hearst Press, without a single new fact to base its theory on, and making such blunders as describing Mr. Aldrich as a Rockefeller son-in-law,* seized this lurid angle: "The House of Rockefeller would strip...