Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the department of Comparative Literature is too losely organized to act as a whole on such a question, it was learned that all of the courses included in it will probably use the reading periods because of their peculiar adaptibility to the new plan...
...While college students prepared to remove "conditions" and school pupils took up "home work" again, the President intensified his study of problems on which he must act this autumn and winter. What to spend on the U. S. merchant marine was apparently one self-assignment, for at a press conference the President voluntarily opined that U. S. shippers and importers should insist on U. S. bottoms...
...Chicago bank lower its rediscount rate against its will (TIME, Sept. 19, BUSINESS). Mr. Crissinger explained that his wife's poor health and his own opportunity to increase his income as an executive of a District of Columbia investment banking house (the F. H. Smith Co.**) made his act personally imperative...
History alone can determine the full significance of this act; opinion may condemn it as politically immoral. The document was signed, critics agree, not by a kingly king but by a puppet of the Dictator. Moreover, it was signed on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the suppression of the constitution and the virtual abolition of the Cortes (Parliament) (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). In its implications it is clearly designed to perpetuate the Primo de Rivera régime...
...district banks, however, during the early years of the Federal Reserve Act circumvented the Board by neglecting to offer changed rates of rediscount for Board approval. Then came a ruling requiring each of the banks to submit their rates weekly to the Board for approval. The Board...