Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to leaks from the parley, Salesman Cox said to Prospect Bonnet: ''I can show you that your fears are groundless. Here, my good friend, let me put all my cards on the table and explain. You do not understand America's position or what she is trying to do. The United States is having its first taste of prosperity in three years. That cannot be jeopardized...
Seemingly Mr. Cox, in assurances which were not revealed, gave M. Bonnet further to understand that, for the duration of the Conference at least, President Roosevelt proposes to keep U. S. prices up and business activity mounting by threatened rather than actual inflation. Finally M. Bonnet agreed to postponement of monetary stabilization while the Conference tackled other matters. Perspiring Mr. Cox swung open the committee room door, broke the good news to Scot MacDonald who broke off his nervous pacing, shook hands all around...
Last winter it was said in Cambridge that Dr. Dewing had gone into the Harvard Trust Co. and taken out $30,000 in gold. When the bank holiday followed, his reputation for astuteness was advanced. Later the students and faculty of the Business School were given to understand that Dr. Dewing had been given leave of absence to complete a great opus on corporation finance.When he resigned, Cambridge whispered that he had been fired for the heinous sin of gold hoarding...
...Latin Oration, which to those few who can understand it adds a light note to the exercises, is delivered traditionally at the opening of every Commencement. Besides Smith, the orator today addressed "praeses et socii," (President and Fellows); "decani" (deans); "professores, praeceptores, tutoresque" (professors, instructors, and tutors); "gubernator praeclare" (Governor Ely); alumni; "patres matresque"; puellae formosissimae" (most comely maidens); "legati Angliae Galliaeque" (the English and French ambassadors); and finally "praeses noster" (President Lowell again...
...monopolies of 1907, financial power in 1933 is not a thing to be established by yes & no testimony. The social implications of such prestige as is bound up in a House of Morgan cannot readily be reduced to a dollars & cents basis for the ordinary citizen to see and understand its effect on him. So far in the Morgan investigation the individual could find whatever he was looking for to prove this or that economic preconception but the country at large was still too close to the facts to weigh the larger questions of the policy. The tax escape issue...