Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lusty strength. Corn was about to go into the fat black acres of Illinois and Iowa. South Carolinians had their cotton planted; their February oats already sprouting. Seed beds for tobacco were being prepared as far north as Connecticut. Spring wheat was being sowed in Kansas now that the thaw had come & gone. Sows had littered in Iowa. John Farmer was starting his 1933 crops on the same haphazard plan of the past because...
Latin scholars may be satisfied with your interpretations of the meaning of the words "habeas corpus," TIME, Feb. 20, "Law Thaw," but lawyers are not. You apparently suggest that this ancient writ is addressed to the imprisoned man's friend or counsel, when you translate the words "You may have the body," but the words are to be treated as a command, "You shall have the body," and are addressed to the sheriff or such other person as may be holding the "body" in custody. The writ reads something like this. "We command that you shall have the body...
...only thing that can relieve the present situation is for the people to be inspired with new confidence in their banks, and to achieve that, the banks must thaw out their assets. A general rise in prices would, of course, stop the depression right here, but that will not come for some time. We are now, and for some time will be, living in an era of low prices. The biggest obstacle to a general rise in prices is Russia, which is capable of selling wheat and oil with out regard to the cost of production...
...only a solution for their own troubles but also a modus vivendi for closed banks in other states. Deposits would be divided in approximately the same proportions as assets. The liquid branch would be operated normally, subject to certain restrictions at the start; the frozen branch would await a thaw. With both State and Federal legislation required it seemed certain that the holiday would be extended...
...crime punishable by a term of more than two years. Appalled were police, prosecutors and feudal-minded deputies of the Right; jubilant was the League for the Rights of Man which had lobbied the bill through Parliament; more jubilant were 500 Frenchmen released like roaches in a thaw from Sante Fresnes and Petite Roquette prisons in Paris and hundreds more from provincial prisons...