Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt may refuse to expand the scrip issue unless secured by bank paper, thus leaving the money-circulation at a near-zero rate. If they take this attitude, and it is all too likely that they will, business activity will falter, slow down, and come increasingly to a dead stop. The logs are in a jam on the river; tinkering with them has failed; dynamite is the only resort left to us. Dynamite and inflation are dangerous to handle, but there are times when an appalling necessity demands their...
...week's conferences in Mr. Roosevelt's Manhattan home began with French Ambassador Paul Claudel on War Debts, with Canadian Minister William Herridge on tariff reciprocity. After an overnight stop at his Hyde Park home, Mr. Roosevelt motored on to Albany to attend the legislative correspondents' annual dinner and political burlesque. He laughed uproariously when a "Roosevelt" asked a "Smith": "Well, Al, what do you think my administration will need most?" And was told, "a four-leaf clover, Frank...
...China may not have shot and shells, but each Chinese can stop one! Our soldiers are unarmed-unclothed-but we have our lives to give. Let the enemy come, even throughout China, and kill a hundred million! We are very productive and will send more. Lives are China's ammunition...
...stop overproduction of new nurses and provide work for those already trained, abolish hundreds of the 2,000 U. S. nursing schools...
...only thing that can relieve the present situation is for the people to be inspired with new confidence in their banks, and to achieve that, the banks must thaw out their assets. A general rise in prices would, of course, stop the depression right here, but that will not come for some time. We are now, and for some time will be, living in an era of low prices. The biggest obstacle to a general rise in prices is Russia, which is capable of selling wheat and oil with out regard to the cost of production...