Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government is paying off its national debt at the rate of a billion dollars a year, and "in 15 years there may remain no Federal securities for the Reserve bank to purchase or lend upon." Open-market paper, too, has been "shrinking rapidly." Thus the Federal Reserve would sooner or later be forced to rediscount security collateral loans for lack of other loans upon which to exercise its rediscount facilities. It would have to accept stock market collateral or else find itself of small importance and usefulness. Mr. Simmons did not believe that a conservative, careful system of rediscounting security...
...news can't be suppressed," Mr. Madry added. Real news will out, regardless of attempts of college officials toward suppression. True, it may be suppressed temporarily, as frequently it is, but the fact remains that a good story that is fit to print is going to get into print sooner or later...
Many an observer has commented on the likelihood of Junior Justice Stone's making, sooner or later, the one judicial step higher that remains for him. It is well within probability that President Hoover, especially if he is an eight-year President, will have the appointing of the next Chief Justice. There have been ten Chief Justices. Everyone since 1800 has died in office. Eight of them (Jay, Ellsworth, Marshall, Taney, Chase, Waite, Fuller. Taft) were called from outside the Supreme Court...
Sentence. Judge Burrows decreed a fine of $300. Mrs. Dennett said she would go to jail sooner than pay it. Her friends planned to give her pamphlet to President Hoover, asked help...
...April evening in Manhattan five years ago, a slight, aquiline-featured man returned from a theatre to his room. No sooner had he crossed the threshold than lines of anguish twisted across his face and he fell dead from a heart attack. His death was unforeseen, but many of his friends believed that his health had been gravely impaired during the investigation of alleged construction faults in Nebraska's new $9,000,000 state capitol at Lincoln. That building, the friends claimed, was Architect Goodhue's sovereign design, imbued with all his prowess and pride. To hear...