Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chase National Bank's Assistant Cashier Mary Vail Andress reported that the ratio of investments to loans in Federal Reserve member banks had risen from 44% in 1925 to 150% in 1936. "From my reading of Biblical literature I infer that Eve was created for Adam's express company," observed Miss Andress. "From my readings of financial literature I infer that commercial banks now exist for the express purpose of financing Government deficits...
...shouldered Carl Milles is 60, was once a pupil of Rodin, is one of the world's most respected artists. Noted for his unerring sense of design, especially impressive in his many famed fountains, Sculptor Milles was dismayed when the Rockefeller Center management rejected his plans for an Adam & Eve fountain in Manhattan's Radio City, filed a $15,000 suit for his time & trouble...
...recognition from the high church hierarchy. Until 1926 an annual train of Egyptian Mohammedan pilgrims made its way to Mecca, bringing gifts of money, grain and a newly woven black brocade carpet to cover Mecca's sacred, silver-incrusted Black Stone, a meteorite supposed to have fallen in Adam's time. To protect the Egyptian pilgrims from Ibn Saud's marauding Wahabi warriors went each year a company of Egyptian soldiers and a military band. In 1926 King Ibn Saud objected to the troops. His ascetic Wahabis said they objected to the whole caravan and especially...
Army: Major General John Greer Dill, Director of Military Operations & Intelligence; Major General Walter King Venning, Director of Movements & Quartering; Colonel Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, Office of Military Operations...
...their economic feet. Few of the 200 and more schemes which doctors have invented to earn an honest dollar have sat well with A. M. A. None has proved more revolting to that potent national body than the prepayment plan which Milwaukee's Drs. John Edward Rueth, 46, Adam Lee Curtin, 49, and Herbert Carl Dallwig, 45, recently instituted...