Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal charm and persuasiveness by no means wholly explained Mr. Roosevelt's wooing & winning the country. It would be grossly unfair to discount the genuine desire of the average Congressman to be helpful in time of crisis. And where this desire was weak or the Congressman's honest convictions obstructive, President Roosevelt held behind his back the most puissant of political weapons- Patronage, the thousands & thousands of Federal jobs the distribution of which Congressmen may propose, the President dispose...
...Mustard Flag!" President von Hindenburg's pompous State Secretary, Dr. Otto Meissner was once secretary to "the George Washington of the German Republic," its first President, Friedrich Ebert (died 1925). One day last week Dr. Meissner picked up his telephone, heard a woman's voice weak with terror, the voice of Widow Ebert, a plump, pink, normally happy hausfrau...
...Reopening of some 13,500 U. S. banks (75%) provided a broad enough credit base for commercial operations. The closing of weak banks makes that base much firmer than before...
Which banks to open was Secretary Woodin's next problem. He called for three classifications: 1) banks 100% sound which could open and stay open; 2) banks less than 100% sound which with tinkering or a conservator could be partly opened; 3) banks so weak as to be kept shut until liquidated...
...Conservators." Provided also was a halfway operating point for national banks between solvency and receivership. "Conservators" were to be appointed who could let out deposits on a limited basis, receive and segregate new deposits, help arrange reorganizations. Practically, "Conservators" would be national bank receivers who would run weak institutions instead of shutting them...