Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said. As to bear raiding, he simply said: "Our investigations have disclosed no bear raids." He suggested that the Federal Government had put the general public into the market by educating the people to a knowledge of securities through Liberty Loan drives, agreed that public officials had helped to sustain the 1926-29 inflation through bullish statements...
...Farm Board's pleas to cut acreage. July wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade began the week at 58? per bu.- 3¢ below last year's level. Alarms of crop damage due to weather upped the price to 60?. Next day similar reports failed to sustain the market. It slumped back to 58?. The third day prices climbed 3/4? and the fourth day 1/4? more on tales of dust storms in Kansas, delayed spring wheat planting in the Northwest. The fifth day the market went to smash, dropping to 56 1/2? per bu. Traders were jumpy...
...passed. I am absolutely opposed to any such legislation. ... I do not believe any such legislation can become law. Such action would undo every effort that is being made to reduce Government expenditures and balance the budget. The first duty of every citizen is to build up and sustain the credit of the Government. Such an action would irretrievably undermine it. That's all." Congressman Wright Patman of Texas is the House's loudest advocate of full Bonus payments.* His bill for that purpose was the first introduced at this session. He proposes that the two billion dollars...
...business to sustain the whole show. Whenever the film begins to gather momentum, the director inserts an ill-advised comic interlude, wherein Frederick Kerr lends a English country-house atmosphere to a supposedly German baronial castle. It is nevertheless quite possible to overlook such discrepancies and to find the show entertaining...
...President Hoover's whole legislative program. But Federal relief for hungry individuals he, his followers and most "right thinking" people vigorously damn as a "dole." To make direct aid by the Treasury unnecessary, the White House coordinated a nation-wide campaign for private contributions to local charity to sustain the needy, stressed "individual initiative," "community responsibility." But for every 50˘ thus voluntarily contributed, governments? city, county. State ? are spending $1 in tax money to relieve mass distress. If a "dole" consists of public support of the needy, countless jobless are already on a "dole...