Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Congress should be reluctant to bestow added powers upon the executive seems an odd stemming of the tide of political theory and practice. Even the English Parliament has accepted its proper fate in an economic and social emergency whose trends are too rapid for mass regulation. Centralization of authority in the hands of a Prime Minister with a clear majority in the Commons has caused no dictator baiting. But our representatives have a stubborn reluctance to admit that their own leadership in the crisis has vacillated long enough, and cling pitiably to the purse strings which have of late...
Last week, brought up short against this increasingly acute problem, the U. S. Senate prepared to act. Into the $500,000,000 bill for direct relief to States, reported out by the Manufactures Committee, was tucked a $15,000,000 item for "transients"-the voteless, ever-shifting tide of humanity which States are reluctant...
...Zealand went off the gold standard with Mother Britain. But was that going far enough? Last week secretive, soft-spoken Premier George William Forbes thought not. Really drastic reflation, he decided, is necessary to tide his Dominion through Depression...
...real profits are from manufacturing of advertised products and that if babies cry for Fletcher's Castoria they will get it regardless of who owns the corner drugstore. And Drug could make good use of cash to buy in its own bonds at 65? on $1 and to tide over its money-losing Liggett chain of drugstores...
...receivership, too. As receiver, courts appointed Alfred Van Santvoord Olcott, the Line's president. Great-grandson of Commodore Abraham Van Santvoord whose "safety barges" were the talk of the river 125 years ago, Receiver Olcott said the company had been unable to obtain the usual bank loan to tide it over the winter months when its big white steamers are laid...