Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more startling rumor came over the wires. In an effort to avert revolution, the Cabinet was seriously considering abandoning the principle of private capitalism, and substituting for it a system of state capitalism in which the Government would take control of all private industries, banks, shipping, trade, to straighten out the nation's finances. This would be arriving at practical Communism by the shortest cut possible. Moscow jubilated, hailed the beginning of the world revolution...
President Coolidge: Mr. Moore, I want you to go down and straighten out this Tacna-Arica trouble...
Which is to say the difference between a man and a hen. . . . Pep is something that makes a man straighten up, throw out his chest, stick out his chin, and do things. . . . It brightens his wits. It sharpens his tongue. It creates sunshine all around...
...guffawing, by reviving his twelve-year-old proposal that the U. S. purchase Lower California from Mexico.- To the 58,338 desolate square miles thus acquired he would add another 10,000 sq. mi. clipped from the Mexican State of Sonora and tacked on to his own Arizona to straighten its southern boundary. By" his resolution the President would be ''respectfully requested to open negotiations" for this international deal...
...Commonwealth was saved from financial shipwreck last week when the $140,000,000 conversion loan; needed to straighten out tangled finances (TIME, Sept. 17, et ante), was oversubscribed by $8,750,000 by 117,000 subscribers. The treasury proudly announced that 103,000 subscribers had sent $95,000,000 in cash or checks. Said J. E. Fenton, Acting Prime Minister in the absence of James Henry Scullin (on his way back from the Imperial Conference at London): "I am very hopeful that if we continue to pull together we will soon find come out of the black cloud of depression...