Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. Marshall was somewhat mysterious about financial backing in his purchase of the Braves. The theory that there might be Hearst money involved seemed unsound since young George Hearst is currently in disfavor with his father, who has broadcast notices to Hearst papers in all U. S. cities: DO NOT CASH ANY CHECKS OR GIVE ANY MONEY TO MY SON GEORGE- (signed...
Sanity is the gold standard. Sanity is a balanced budget. Sanity is free trade. These verities the Queen and many of her subjects consider eternal. Judged by such verities, the Great Powers have gone insane, turning sound money into unsound, unbalancing budgets meant to be balanced, and shutting out cheap goods by tariffs, with the result that their own peoples have to pay more than they otherwise would for the necessities of life...
...best attested by the great number of them now bivouacked in bankruptcy and receivership. In fact, as soon as the Commission heard of any company going into bankruptcy or receivership it hustled its examiner to the scene. The Commission has attempted to create the impression that abuses and unsound business practices of a few . . . well-publicized companies were typical of the industry...
Last week Women Investors, Inc. filed its charter in Albany. It promised to "arouse women to a realization of the stake they hold in the nation's wealth." It promised to protect and preserve industry, stocks & bonds, homes, husbands, etc. It promised to oppose "unsound" legislation. "Few people realize," it said, "that women own 70% of the wealth of this country; 80% of the insurance policies now in effect. . . . It is the women who guard the family pocketbook, and the women now have decided to guard the nation's pocketbook...
...what strikes me particularly is that the purpose of the whole publication seems to have missed fire. I remember reading in Mark Twain's Sketch Book not long ago a most gruesome (to the unsound of wit) story about "My Bloody Massacre." Briefly, it describes how Mark Twain wrote under the guise of a murder story a biting satire about a certain person, but no one who read the paper paid any attention to the little details that showed what a great fiction it all was As I remember one bit: "Gosh, Jim, he scalped his wife and b'iled...