Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downward spiral?bank runs, heavy sales of assets to keep liquid, reduced security values, more fear, more runs, more sales, still lower values. It is to arrest this process that the Government has interposed R. F. C. on the theory that $2,000,000,000 will cushion the fall, stop it. perhaps turn it up in the opposite direction. Once it turns, however, it becomes to economic realists, inflation. Last week this purpose of the Hoover policy?the artificial creation of credit?was publicly discerned by the Press as far away as France...
...reflected last week by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, smart Republican politician, in her Rockford (Ill.) Register-Republic which declared that "Mr. Hoover is not a popular leader." Her paper advised leaders to discard the practice of renominating a President just because he was in the White House, to stop "following the political methods in vogue when father was a boy." Five days later the Register-Republic declared: "Illinois gives you Charles Gates Dawes for President...
...their best to pull maimed bodies from the wreckage. They were laid on the parallel track while telegraph operators wired Moscow frantically for help. Suddenly a freight train, proudly burdened with Soviet goods, bore down from the opposite direction. The wounded could not move. The freight could not stop...
...hind printed advertising in the way it em ploys good music. It has progressed to thi extent of presenting many famed individuals. (Notable this season is the General Electric Concert series given Sunday afternoons with different artists?last weel Soprano Lily Pons.) But Radio advertisers still stop short of chamber music?music in its purest form. The radio series of chamber musicales which started last week required the philanthropy of Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the endowment she gave in 1925 to the Music Divi sion of the Library of Congress. The Rotl String Quartet from Budapest played the first program...
...regard to Smith, the present sentiment of the party seems to be that he had had his opportunity, and fairness requires that Roosevelt be given his. Probably Smith at present has just enough strength to stop the nomination of his former ally, though hardly enough to be chosen himself. It is possible to sympathize with Smith's desire for another attempt at the presidency, and still feel that the party's aims would be better reached by another man. In some measure, the fate of his party will perhaps hinge on the struggle between ex-Governor Smith's personal ambitions...