Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the President of the U. S. came back in blossom time and at once began diligently to tend his garden...
...Bridge was rich and ready to expand. Leaving his Eatonville hospital and contracts in charge of his first assistant surgeon, he bought the practice of a contract surgeon in Tacoma, set about becoming a medical tycoon in earnest. As new contracts flowed in he hired assistant physicians to tend them, equipping each with residence, office, drugstore, ambulance. Finding good office-assistants scarce, he set up a training school for them in Tacoma. He bought a hospital and an emergency clinic in Seattle. Last year he put up a five-story, $125,000 building in Tacoma which houses his business administration...
...upping seemed to conflict momentarily with the views of one of its own high priests of industrial economics. Vice President James David Mooney, in charge of exports, had declared in his book The New Capitalism published scarcely two months ago: "High prices, particularly if they are out of balance, tend to destroy the interchange of goods, and cause a starved flow of goods to consumers. Such prices destroy purchasing power, dry up demand, create unemployment, and lower the standard of living...
...minority (there always is one) which opposed, in the Academic Council, the move to change Stanford's educational setup by eliminating probation and disqualification among upper classmen and graduates contended that the move will tend to allow a "country club atmosphere" to permeate these dear old grounds...
...principle of taxation which, if adopted, would demoralize the laws of supply and demand and tend to break down the NRA, as well as the AAA, is under consideration by the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee...