Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amount of plain common sense in these clippings, the sort to which one turns as a refuge from the partisan gas-clouds that filled the air at the time they were written, and fill it now more than ever. To the cry of inflation, he retorts with the magic word reflation, with the absolute need and desirability of a controlled expansion of credit. To the preposterous moral arguments about the abrogation of the gold clause, he replies with humor, and point to the obvious realities regarding promises to pay in gold that extend far beyond the resources of banks...
...Washington-London-Paris agreement, M. Auriol dramatically explained, has been under super-secret negotiation ever since last June, not a word of what Morgenthau, Chamberlain and Auriol were confiding to each other having leaked to the press...
...Administration side of the franc maneuver last week was a fascinating story in itself (see p. 12). If there was a British story, the British sat on it. In France the Cabinet's charming financial fairy tale was to substitute for such unpleasant words as "inflation" or "devaluation" the pleasant word "adjustment" or in French "l'alignement des monnaies." That is to say, the French Cabinet claims that what is being done is to adjust the franc by reducing its value and aligning it firmly with the dollar and the pound. As in all good fairy tales there...
Funny material to be purveyed by the new syndicate had a heavy rural cast. As a possible substitute for the wise saws of the late Humorist Will Rogers, which McNaught Syndicate sold to 500 newspapers, Esquire Features offered a daily 150-word gag from Bob Burns, onetime vaudevillian whose radio hillbilly and cinema humor and music on a home-made "bazooka" were last week estimated in Variety to be earning him $400,000 a year."* Pictorial humor was to be furnished by Esquire Cartoonist Paul Webb's "Mountain Boys," a group of grotesque, bearded, barefooted figures. In the current...
...Exchange on what was supposed to be a New Deal platform, the idea of advertising remained unpalatable to the Governors. It was quite proper that President Gay should stump from coast-to-coast in an effort to "educate" the public. But to do it with the written word, bought & paid for, seemed to many an oldster on the Floor to be no less shocking than the idea of an advertising campaign in behalf of the Union Club...