Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figure for 1929, $3,637,079,024.09 had already been appropriated and President Coolidge was emphatic in warning Congress to be prudent this session, not to vote any extra money without providing new sources of revenue...
...last message of Calvin Coolidge to the U. S. Congress proved to be a brief and unmomentous document. It began, of course, on Peace and Prosperity. It announced that, thanks to prudent budget pruning, the Treasury might have a surplus of 37 millions this year instead of the 94-million deficit rumored before the election. Let Congress beware of the "unthinkable disgrace" of unbalancing the budget between now and June 30, it said...
...Ended the "state of siege" and "martial law" which has been maintained since the War in a ring of Rumanian territory 35 miles wide encircling "the country just inside the frontier. But, prudent, the Peasant Prime Minister established a new 10-mile wide zone of "martial law" along the Russo-Rumanian frontier, since most Rumanians fear attack by the Bolshevist "Red Army...
...divine, holy and potent relic comparable to a Crown. In one legendary instance the Mirror was nefariously buried and concealed; but the Sun Goddess at once caused it to project upwards from the ground a radiance so transcendant that impious beholders were blinded and driven mad. Since then prudent Japanese have taken no liberties with the Divine Mirror, originally inherited by the first Tenno Jimmu from his great-great-grandmother, Sun Goddess Omaterosu O-Mikami, who established him as the Emperor of Japan, over which his descendants have reigned ever since (2,588 years...
With Steel confirming the "15x" theory, did investors hold General Motors cheap at 222, rush to brokers with orders to buy? Prudent investors consulted prudent stockmarketeers. They learned: 1) that the "15x" formula might justify itself in a strong bull market, but that it could not be maintained in a slump; 2) that many a sound, conservative stock, undisturbed by pools, sells at 10x or 12x; 3) that 5-year earnings are safer guides than 9 months or a year...