Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt was determined to try credit inflation on a grand scale before shifting to currency inflation. The success of his NRA campaign depended on ample easy money for the withering capital industries. To this end he held a series of White House conferences last week. One concrete proposal: let R. F. C. go into the market, purchase millions & millions of dollars worth of railroad equipment, lease it to the carriers. The President called in steelmasters, tried to induce them to reduce the price of rails...
...Lewis and Morrow jointly declared: "Unquestionably this agreement is the greatest in magnitude and importance that has ever been negotiated in the history of collective bargaining in the United States. ... It marks the beginning of a new era. ... All interests represented in the agreement are hopeful of its complete success...
...Hour. The Shoreham Contract's complete and unequivocal recognition of his union by the archfoes of organized labor marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers...
From the first, last week, there was no doubt of the Bonnet Lottery's smashing success. Long before dawn impatient queues formed all over France in front of banks, post offices, tax-collection bureaus, tobacco shops. Doors opened at 9 a. m., Frenchmen shoved and fought to buy. By 9:30 every ticket in the first batch of 2,000,000 was sold and speculators were reselling them to disappointed latecomers at a 20% premium. Drawings to determine winners in the first batch will be held on Armistice Day in Paris' lofty, crescent-shaped Palais du Trocadero facing...
...Thomas Stearns Eliot in the famed Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. One of the 1,000-odd freshmen registering at Harvard last week was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. who arrived with a bodyguard. The freshmen were greeted by Charles Francis Adams. Harvard overseer who counseled: "To be a success you must be among the fittest, for they shall survive." And he quoted Harvard's late Dean Nathaniel Southgate Shaler who used to warn Theodore Roosevelt: "It is a good plan not to make more of a damn fool of yourself than God Almighty intended you should...