Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landon's audience of some 20,000 -10,000 less than were expected-listened to his best speech attentively but with no loud enthusiasm. The only really lusty cheer went up when the nominee lapsed into slang to condemn the slapdash Revenue Act of 1936. That his tax blast at the New Deal was no dud, however, became politically plain as potent Democrats rushed forward to dispute, deny and denounce his criticism...
...ships, reporters scurried to Senator Carter Glass to ask whether it was all right for the Chairman of the Reserve System actually to head an industrial corporation. The crusty Virginian, who disparaged Mr. Eccles' nomination to the Reserve Board, refused any comment, pointed dryly to the Federal Reserve Act which says merely "The members of the Board shall devote their entire time to the business of the Board and shall each receive an annual salary of $15,000. . . ." Presumably since joining the Federal Reserve, Mr. Eccles had given no time to his job as an officer of Amalgamated...
...many a California landholder this action seemed just and proper. The Sonoma County Grand Jury refused to indict. The District Attorney declined to act. Last week, however, Sonoma County learned to its astonishment that State's Attorney Ulysses Sigel Webb had had informations filed against 23 prominent citizens, including President Arthur Meese and Secretary Frederick Cairns of the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce, City Editor Julian Mayar of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. All were charged with kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, assault to commit bodily injury on Green and Nitzberg. The defendants, later reduced to 21. all represented...
...talk was all of how the grey little conductor had rehearsed the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to a frazzle in an effort to bring it up to the standard of his New York Philharmonic Symphony. One story was that Toscanini, defying precedent, placed the song contest sequence in the last act of Die Meistersinger to the right of the stage, justified his decision by referring to Wagner's original score. Reminded that Widow Wagner had always done it the other way around at Bayreuth, Toscanini snarled: "Oh, mama was not so clever as papa...
Strictly the Giannini system is not national branch banking, since each big bank confines its expansion to its own State. Transamerica functions not as a bank but as a holding company. Thus Transamerica keeps within the letter of the law of the 1935 Banking Act but cannot similarly invade most Eastern States where laws forbid State-wide branch banking. To unit (one-bank) bankers who violently oppose him as a financial monopolist, Banker Giannini says: "Under a unified banking system it will be possible to have the equivalent of an up-to-date central clearing house for the nation...