Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders with Aaron's difficulties at home. At the outbreak of the War Aaron's difficulties were certainly immense, and Dr. Tansill's book gives the impression that Colonel House was not the least of them. Proud of his part in drawing up the Federal Reserve Act, House became an amateur financial expert, with the "comfortable conviction that his knowledge . . . was adequate to meet the emergency." In the chaotic situation that developed in international finance in 1915, when Allied orders were keeping U. S. factories humming, but when the Administration's disapproval of loans to belligerents...
...surrounded him since 1936. One more thing which the G. O. P. has and the Democrats have not is a Committee of 200 to draw up a Program. Organized last autumn to appease Mr. Hoover, whose scheme of a mid-term convention was declined, the Committee's sole act to date has been to elect University of Wisconsin's onetime President Glenn Frank chairman. Whether the Committee should be listed as an asset or a liability will presumably remain undecided until next winter when it releases its report-of which, to the party's practical politicians...
...critics are morbid, degenerate, democratic intellectuals-relics of the 19th Century!" concluded the Minister for Public Enlightenment. "They are dead, they are unable to act...
...York Stock Exchange were to expel its biggest member firm, the act would be comparable to what happened last week on the Chicago grain exchange. Charging that it deliberately manipulated prices and attempted to corner corn futures last September, the Chicago Board of Trade expelled from membership Cargill Grain Co. of Illinois and its three top officers. Cargill Grain of Illinois is a subsidiary of Cargill Inc., generally accepted as the largest grain elevator and merchandising enterprise in the U. S. Snapped the Board of Trade: "Today's action is final and is not subject to review...
...smart Toronto reporter asked a Protestant, a Jewish and a Catholic divine what they thought of Mrs. Fenton's act, revealed the following replies...