Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other events soon indicated the trend of Franklin Roosevelt's budget ideas. WPA was served notice that it must make $764,000,000 remaining from its 1938 appropriation last until next March as Congress stipulated. This pointed toward Relief economy. Fresh expenditures were pointed to by the remarks made on the White House steps by a departing Presidential caller. Bernard Mannes Baruch, oldtime Roosevelt adviser, long estranged but, since the carving of Czechoslovakia, again a visitor, declared as he emerged from the Presidential presence that the U. S. is dreadfully short of arms, ammunition and equipment for a needed...
...press, more surprised perhaps than the participants in the surprise party, was jolted into recalling the predictions of some prophets, that at some day unpredictable Henry Ford would surprise the U.S. by making a gesture toward organized labor...
When questioned as to his attitude toward picketing, Lahey, who was the labor writer for the Chicago Daily News said, "In this stage of labor relations violence and the sit-down strike are the only weapons against repression." He brought out the fact that 95 per cent of all sit-down strikes took place in a period when employers were deliberately disobeying the Wagner Act on advice of counsel...
...1930s, these oracles have been supplanted by a new group-educators and psychologists, who try to eliminate emotional attitudes toward the problem and express numerically the chances that a particular couple will be happy if they marry. For this purpose they question a large number of married couples in an effort to determine statistically how happy they are, what kind of personalities and opinions they have, how they have been brought up. These investigators then calculate correlations between particular personality traits and happiness. One of their most notable pronouncements is that people who like comic strips are happy in marriage...
Last week such was Wall Street's mollification toward Chairman Douglas that two of its leading firms finally acted upon this advice. Tri-Continental Corp. and Selected Industries Inc., investment trusts on behalf of whose sponsoring bankers, J. & W. Seligman & Co., the Bawl Street Journal once advertised, "Tri Continental. Tri Chesapeake Corp. Tri Anything Once," decided to tri underwriting. For the purpose they formed a new concern- Union Securities Corp., with $1,000,000 in cash, $4,000,000 more subscribed...