Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gould, the contemporary cartoonist. Many of these, like Gladstone, had long careers; while, on the other hand, such men as Randolph Churchill, destined in the light of his early progress to a great career, if not a Prime Ministership, were ruined through a single fatal speech or a sudden change of sentiment...
Dean Shaler experienced a sudden change for the worse during the early morning yesterday and sank rapidly until noon. Since then little change has taken place in his condition. At noon Drs. E. A. Darling of Cambridge, F. R. Jouett of Cambridge, and F. C. Shattuck of the Harvard Medical School were in consultation, but refused to make any official announcement upon Dean Shaler's illness. While the Dean's condition is extremely critical, the doctors have not given up hope of his recovery...
...well qualified to discuss this question. For five years he served as Secretary of the Treasury under President McKinley and President Roosevelt, and during that time repeatedly proposed alternations in the banking laws that would make currency more elastic and better able to respond to the periodic fluctuations and sudden emergencies in the money market. Mr. Gage has also been president of the largest bank in Chicago, three times president of the American Bankers' Association, and is now president of the United States Trust Company in New York...
From an article by Mr. Gage in the current issue of Moody's Magazine, it appears that the United States currency system is built on an artificial and unscientific basis, by which credit, which governs 80 per cent of the world's trade, may be broken down before a sudden demand for cash. This the banks cannot satisfy on account of their obligation to deposit in the treasury of the United States bonds to the amount of the notes they propose to issue...
...brilliant recovery. Since then, he said, four great incidents have encouraged the economic and financial prosperity of the United States: the great failure of European harvests in 1897; the Spanish War, during which our sound credit enabled us to borrow $60,000,000 from European countries; the sudden increase of gold production; and the enactment of the Dingley tarriff...