Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation. The Michigan bank moratorium had jolted the country badly, stripped the R. F. C. of most of its psychological assets. Manhattan bankers had rarely looked more worried. Financiers put unofficial observers at the doors of the Federal Reserve Bank to watch the outflow of gold. There was widespread agreement with Bernard Mannes Baruch's dictum before a Senate committee that the U. S. was confronted with a condition "worse than...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick officially denied a widespread Canadian rumor that the basement of his Riverside Church (Manhattan) had been equipped with a bar to be operated as soon as Prohibition was repealed...
...eclectic nature of our interest in international government was reflected in the caviling of many French journals. In fact, Dr. Herbert Gibbons, American historian who has just returned from the French colonies, states that a strong resentment against our methods in irresponsibly involving the rest of the world is widespread among Europeans...
...Harry Tammen had tongue in cheek when he chose the inscription for the Post's building: "O, Justice! When Expelled From All Other Habitations, Make This Thy Dwelling Place." Fred Bonfils thus expressed the aim of his Foundation: "Better homes . . . better schools . . . greater morality and more widespread regard for the love of God and the Gospel of Christ...
...Elmer Ellsworth Brown who is retiring at 71. Dr. Chase once said that his faith was in the State universities. N. Y. U. is privately endowed, receiving nothing from city or State. But it is large-the nation's largest, with 27,905 degree candidates-and its widespread activities are such as to keep Dr. Chase busy and happy...