Word: impairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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beaming.* All the powers which the Mayor had asked for himself were to be given to his Board of Estimate. Since the Mayor himself controls the Board, the compromise did not seriously impair his program, and it minimized the dangers of '"dictatorship" by spreading the power. The bill was promptly drafted and sent to the Legislature. Having boldly and publicly stepped in front of the Mayor's own program, the Governor assumed at least half of the responsibility for the city's rehabilitation -a program that is currently the most important in State politics. It was therefore...
...came chiefly from the Senators and Representatives of the six large silver-producing states,* where remonetization of silver means profit first, inflation second. For the moment at least the President's "stupendous" budget message (see p. 17) had stilled Congressional demands for Greenbackery or other measures likely to impair Government credit...
...inviolate and property has had loans placed upon it on the assumption that public sale could bring the investor his original investment or as much of it as was possible to get on the market. Now an entirely new point of view is interjected. And if the states can impair a contract with respect to real estate investments, may they not also do the same with respect to the bonds of industrial corporations, insurance companies and others which have made definite pledges to those from whom they have received money...
...President Howard Davis, anxious to end four weeks of wrangling, submitted a "temporary" code by which publishers could officially receive their eagles, got it approved by Administrator Johnson pending a hearing. It stipulated that publishers would not be bound by any requirements which might impair the Freedom of the Press, thus quieting a controversy raised by newspapermen who feared the licensing powers of NRA. It included (but left for future discussion) settlement of a second controversial point: that publishers and employes had the right to bargain together without interference by a third party. In addition the code...
Immediate reason for default was that the operating deficits of two and a half years have cut the company's working capital from $12,600,000 to $6,000,000. Directors feared to impair it further by paying $800,000 in interest due Aug. 1. The able president (now receiver) Arthur Roeder (procured in 1929 from American Linseed Co.) will have a tough job to bring the company around the corner in time to refund $27,000,000 of bonds falling due a year hence. Saints have their crosses, the Rockefellers have Colorado Fuel & Iron...