Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less serene disposition than "Willie" Woodin might well have been agitated beyond dissembling by the heat and pressure of that first terrific week at the Treasury. Every bank in the land- 18,000 of them- had been shut tight by Presidential proclamation (TIME, March 13). For practical purposes the U. S. was off the gold standard. The nation's industries were at a standstill. The public pulse was beating a panicky tattoo. The Federal Government was so bowed with accumulated deficits as to threaten national credit. Ahead lay only economic uncertainty. If ever a Secretary of the Treasury started...
...three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally jammed, frozen tight...
...Manon. He had stopped the performance when he first came on stage, a tall, broad-shouldered, unaffected person unlike the run of chunky, strutting tenors. He had stopped it again with his quiet, tender singing of the second-act drama. He had taken more than 35 curtain calls, clinging tight to the hand of Soprano Lucrezia Bori, who had done much to help him around the stage, on which he had never rehearsed. But if with his acting Tenor Crooks reminded people of a solemn young amateur done up for the first time in the frills and wigs of 18th...
...President Hoover called to the White House a swarm of bankers, financiers, businessmen, industrialists, railroaders, labor leaders, farm spokesmen. In the privacy of his study, one by one, he asked them what he should do in the economic emergency. Almost to a man his visitors told him to sit tight, keep smiling, let the tempest blow itself out. For nearly two years he followed their advice...
Like many another Democrat, Alfred Emanuel Smith has a low opinion of the R. F. C. as a Depression-buster. Before a Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems in Manhattan last week he flayed its tight-fisted method of doling out small sums at high interest rates...