Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bankers and businessmen swarmed to support Secretary Mellon. They contended that the proposal to put extra cash in circulation was unsound economics inasmuch as it was unknown if and how the money would be spent. They also warned that the extra burden of the payment in taxes and depressed prices, particularly with the Government facing a deficit, would fall hardest of all on Veteran Jim Jobless. While the argument went on, domestic bond-prices dropped about $12 and Government 4½s dropped $27 per $1,000 bond. Agitators for the cash Bonus cried: "Manipulation!" Bankers, really worried, looked glum...
Plaintiff Frome, 54, worked for the soup company from 1898 until 1928 when, according to his story, the defendants forced him out of his $40,000-a-year position as superintendent, told his wife he was mentally unsound as the result of drinking, had him detained for observation. A year ago he was released from Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane as normal...
...suitable to discussion in class. Curiously enough, they are all subjects on which many people have definite convictions which amount almost to a mania. In each section there are liable to be some such people. These turn the class from intelligent discussion to the expression of personal and often unsound views. All the time spent in this is practically wasted as far as learning economics is concerned...
...argument will be considered sufficiently sound by the supreme court is a question that will have to wait. Regardless of his personal views on prohibition, Judge Clark is to be Highly commended for the skill and sincerity with which he attacks a law that he believes to be constitutionally unsound. Enforcing laws which are evidently ill adapted to cope with an admittedly idealistic purpose, must seem to him, particularly in his official capacity, like trying to fit square pegs into round holes. If his decision is upheld by the Supreme Court, the unwieldy pegs possibly may be reshaped...
...Wealth, Happiness, these obviously are the goods held out to the American citizen today," says James Bayard Clark at the outset of his examination of "Our New Progress." He then proceeds to discuss the subject in two essays, "Cornucopia" and "Caritas." In each he finds the status quo woefully unsound and the promise of "Our New Progress" a sop to take in the great American public...