Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word of this would Secretary of Agriculture Wallace publicly admit. Nevertheless decreased consumption sharpened to a painful point the first estimate of the U. S. cotton crop for 1935 given out the following day by Secretary Wallace's department. Forecast was a production of 11,800,000 bales. That estimate was well under the big crops of the late 1920's, but it was 2,100,000 bales larger than last year. With world consumption of U. S. cotton down to 12,250,000 bales, the chance of getting rid of any worthwhile portion...
...appoint and remove at will the Governor and Vice Governor. To this Administration-controlled Board it gave centralized powers to fix rediscount rates and conduct open-market operations (powers that had previously belonged to the twelve regional Reserve Banks throughout the land); authority to alter reserve requirements, and to admit or deny virtually any collateral for rediscount. As the bill emerged after Senator Glass had worked on it, the Federal Reserve Board (renamed the "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System") would be composed of seven members, only four of them belonging to the same political party. The Secretary...
...full appreciation of your many complimentary references to Senator Robinson's distinguished public service and with forgiveness for your uncontrollable penchant for shooting pins at every balloon of appreciation even including those blown up by you, I venture to challenge the accuracy of your statement "Even his friends admit that he ... is slipping politically at home." As former State Commander of the American Legion, as State Finance Chairman of the Smith-Robinson Campaign in 1928 and as present State Director of the National Emergency Council I have had many opportunities to become acquainted with the public estimate of Senator...
...Government should be fair with the citizen," thundered Senator Borah. "There is an old fiction that the Government cannot be sued without its consent. I presume we will have to admit that that fiction is pretty well established in our jurisprudence. But it originated in the most egregious fiction that was ever established in any system, that is that the king can do no wrong, because at the time it was incorporated in the Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence the king did not do anything else but wrong, and the reason why the tribunals were denied to the citizens was because...
This week in Virginia City merger of four of the most fabulous Comstock mines will be broached-Ophir, Mexican, Andes and Consolidated Virginia. Only "Eastern interest" to admit his connection with the deal was John Jacob Raskob, identified in the local Press as a "New York contractor." With his wife, the onetime Democratic National chairman was at nearby Lake Tahoe...