Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier discussed onetime Premier MacDonald's invitation to call a general election, saying that he was too sporting an opponent to hit the Labor Party until it had a stronger issue than repeal of the Trades Union Act...
Failure of Moscow to act might lead the French Government to hand M. Rakovsky his passports, thus compelling him to return to Russia, an act that might be regarded as "unfriendly" by the Bolsheviki...
...possession of a domineering attitude," School Superintendent of Chicago William McAndrew said: "They [the School Board] will fire me all right, but they'll have to stage a burlesque show to do it" (TIME, Oct. 10). After a week's adjournment of his trial, the second act was presented...
...brothers Reynolds?George McClelland Reynolds the elder and chairman of the boards of both banks, and Arthur Reynolds, younger by three years and president of both. Practically, the same banks were one Continental & Commercial institution; legally they were separate, for until the passage of the McFadden Branch Banking act by Congress last session (TIME, Jan. 31), national banks might not function as trustees. Banks incorporated under state laws might do so?a condition which drove national banks to subterfuge. They created separate incorporations of what might have been their trust departments...
Under the liberties of the McFadden act, the Continental & Commercial banks might merge. Last week they did so; pooling resources of nearly $640,000,000. Chicago now has the sixth largest bank in the U. S.* But Chicago must break a habit learned in 1910 when the Commercial National Bank consolidated with the Continental National Bank to form the Continental & Commercial National Bank. After Dec. 1, Chicago will be obliged to say Continental National Bank & Trust...