Word: needed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Liberal notions, he was known as an administrator who would stand no nonsense. But for all his love of sport, Lord Willingdon is not young (64). Cautious observers questioned whether he had the physical strength to meet the trying task that awaits him. Murmured the London Times: "[He] will need something more vigorous than charm and tact...
Much uneasiness was caused last week by the continued decline in the bond market. Second-grade bonds have dropped in alarming fashion; the best bonds have slumped at an angle almost unprecedented. One reason given is the need of many an institution to have much cash on hand. Another is that new bond financing for eleven months this year was $5,300,000,000 against $3,671,000,000 all last year, that bond digestion is clogged. Said the venerable, owl-wise Commercial & Financial Chronicle last week: "It is bad enough to see stock prices going all tx> smash...
...Harvard. The article agrees with the criticism recently made in these columns of the Philosophy part of the Mathematics - Philosophy requirement; for it concludes that, while distribution in either Mathematics or Philosophy is highly desirable, the courses at present offered in the latter are inadequate to meet the need...
...ardent Democrat than Texas Senator Tom Connally. Porto Ricans proclaimed the good fortune by Filipinos to get such a Vice Governor as Dr. Butte. Impressed, Politicos Quezon and Osmena in Manila announced that they were quite satisfied. President Hoover felt that he might well congratulate himself. ¶ "We need to be more humble," President Hoover was told at Quaker meeting by Miss Muriel Lester, London slum worker. ¶ With his special message on the World Court written and ready to send to the Senate, President Hoover was informed that at least 20 Senators would oppose ratification of the Root Formula...
...public service." Though the gist of Mr. Young's speech had to do with international War debts and leniency of creditor to debtor in hard times (see p. 16), it contained undertones such as might be found in the words of any presidential possibility. Excerpts: "We need to know more of the world as it is and to discard for ourselves, as we have for our daughters, the hoopskirts and false unfrankness of the crinoline age. . . . Our politics raises its petty barriers [the Republican tariff?] oblivious of the mighty forces which men have let loose upon themselves. . . . "Our economics...