Word: wand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last Spring President Roosevelt waved his magic wand over the Tennessee Valley and decreed that more electricity should be made than could be used. Last week the wand waved again and the President decreed that all the residents of the Tennessee Valley should have electrical gadgets to burn up the excess current. By executive order, he created the Electric Home & Farm Authority to provide cheap credit in the realm of the TVA for the sale of electric stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, irons, toasters, sewing machines, waffle irons, etc. Appliance makers have agreed to furnish a standard low price line which...
Gradually, however, as commodity prices failed to respond to the New Deal's magic wand, the President's monetary policy veered away from "hard money" toward depreciation of the dollar. That fitted better with Mr. Morgenthau's ideas. The elder Morgenthau, who made his millions in Bronx real estate, could probably afford to face inflation without undue anxiety, but Son Henry has long been known as more or less economically heterodox by training. Last week when the President made Henry Morgenthau Jr. not only Undersecretary but at the same time acting Secretary of the Treasury...
Having waved over mine, shop and factory, the magic wand of the NRA was last week poised for its last big sweep, over the retail stores of the land. After public incantations which began in August and backstage sorcery continued all through September, the Retail Code was nearly ready for the President to approve and invoke...
...tied up closely to a long-term program [reduction of corn and hog production next year]. . . . The after-effects otherwise would be disastrous to hog prices for the 1934-35 season and for some time thereafter. . . . The real solution must come from the farmers themselves. No fairy wand can be waved over agricultural markets so that they will receive better prices...
Much of the enthusiasm for McKee arose last year when he replaced Walker after the latter's resignation. Like a slightly bulbous fairly god-mother, he brandished the wand of reform over startled New Yorkers. His first economy measures took the city by surprise; though it was obvious to many that these moves were dictated by the city's banker-creditors, McKee was resoundingly lauded from press and pulpit. Taking advantage of his sudden popularity he issued scores of orders, closing burlesque shows here, and dictating now traffic rules there. With the coming of the fall elections McKee was even...