Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, said Mr. Farley, in nearly the exact words of onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, it would be the Post Office Department's policy to continue financial assistance to mail-carrying transport lines. As to new airlines, the Department's position was that it was economically unsound to finance them in competition "with the lines we are trying to build...
...speaker went on to say that two interesting economic schemes had been developed during the depression. One of these is our own NRA, while the other has appeared in Australia. The first plan is politically feasible for use in this country, it is economically unsound; and that although the second plan is economically sound, it is perhaps not practical in politics. Having stated that relatively little could be done to alleviate the economic distress in this country by the use of such plans as mentioned, Dr. Mason at the same time expressed the belief that we were emerging from...
...with but one theme: that the Administration has two wings of opinion, one right, one left; that the Right has a monopoly over the good, the true, the beautiful but is lax in asserting its eminence; and that the Left is composed of young radical professors who combine fluttery, unsound minds with amazing, sinister shrewdness in hypnotizing the President. It appears that Rex Tugwell, for one, "has studied the recent revolutions in Europe painstakingly and knows the technique of carrying America from individualism to collectivism as minutely as a farmer knows the technique of raising a crop," and that...
...exchange in the present state of uncertainty concerning American finance," snapped the spokesman, "would be useless - worse than useless! We must have a more substantial foundation than we have now on which to build any permanent relationship between American and British currencies. Otherwise we would risk entering into an unsound agreement which might be worse for both countries than the present situation...
...damnations, is the strong fatherly method in which he extends salvation to a picked few of the forty thousand; the rare, trade-minded industrialists like Henry Ford and his peers; while he lets those who use money to make merely money, sink with the gold-standard of unsound, dishonest debts...