Word: tiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Britain's] murderers are for the most part made up of poor devils who in some way have succumbed to the stress of life. ... In the United States the ebb of the Prohibition tide might even cause a situation far more desperate than its flow. You cannot throw some thousands of well-armed and ruthless criminals out of profitable employment with impunity...
...which swept Europe like a flame in those two glorious years of revolution. The world made heroic gestures which were to crumple at the touch of steel, but the story of Rome and of Vienna, of Budapest, and Paris, was written too well to be obliterated under the returning tide of military autocracy. A Hapsburg was still on the throne of his conglomerate empire, a Bourbon swaggered in Naples, and a saddened Pope told his beads once again in the Vatican, but despotism had had its day and the foundations of the old order rocked beneath the blare...
With such tidbits of news President Hoover's campaign against hoarding moved forward on a nation-wide front last week. Announced the President: "Since I took action on hoarding, there has been an entire turn in the tide. ... It has not only stopped but it is estimated that $34,000,000 has been returned to circulation from hoarding...
...expansion of bank credit, another move to quiet public alarm, restore confidence in banks and bring hoarded money out of hiding. Secretary Mills thought it would stop all further bank failures. Wall Street, as indicated by the stock rise, looked upon it as currency inflation which might turn the tide. Most anxious bankers hailed it as the "most constructive step" yet taken in the Depression. Conservative Republican Senators, shying away from its inflationary aspect, played down the printing press idea for political reasons, guessed that the Reserve Board might after all have no occasion actually to expand the currency...
Last autumn when fearful depositors were withdrawing their cash from good banks and bad in enormous quantities, the very mention of hoarding was suppressed lest by its suggestive power it stimulate the process. The White House had no solid assurances of bank safety with which to turn the tide. Now, however, the President has the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to point to as a sturdy backlog for bank protection. With its two billion dollar credit it began to club truant cash back into stable depositories...