Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speakers' stand) listened carefully. Said Senator Reed: "Some of you farmers think agriculture is sick. Drs. Coolidge and Hoover, however, assured us the entire country is prosperous. If this species of absent treatment were effective, everybody would be happy." Senator Reed began to talk about the Federal Reserve Act; said he: "The credit for this great banking system must be given largely to Senator Glass and to Woodrow Wilson. ... I did some work, which, whether valuable or not, I would rather have appraised by others." At this the farmers nodded sagely. Not so the pressmen. They, more canny critics...
...Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, met, last week, the British Trades Union Congress. Its most important act was to break off relations with the All-Russian Council of Trades Unions, a course recommended by its General Council. By this action Bolshevist activities in the British Isles were dealt a deadly blow...
...John Robert Clynes, shockheaded, beady-eyed, a leading Laborite of the moderate wing, thought the only element of surprise in the decision was that it had come so late. Added he: "Some of us have expressed our horror at the shooting of 20 Russians [in Russia] as an act of inexcusable murder. I cannot understand the mentality of those who denounce acts committed in one country and gloss them over when committed in another country. Murder is murder the whole world over...
Before the Federal Reserve Act became law in 1913 and was still in discussion, local bankers wanted the rediscount rates fixed by the proposed regional banks. The late William Jennings Bryan and his Democrats opposed that idea vigorously. The rates, said they, should be established by some central in-stitution?the Federal Reserve Board. The compromise: the boards of directors of each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks were to submit to the Federal Reserve Board at Washington for approval, a rediscount rate for their particular region. The Board was presumed able only to veto, not to initiate rates...
...good characters?the man, he's the main thing, and the woman, very secondary. These two elements, together with my first chapter, constitute my preparation. Then I live with my characters for a while?eat with them, walk with them, play golf with them. Finally they begin to act according to their own wills; then I let them go, and they work out their own destiny. I simply pull the strings. Soon, the first thing I know, I have another book ready for my publishers. It's great fun, really...