Word: assets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banker is concerned his reserves are his deposits in the district Federal Reserve Bank. He is not immediately interested in the fact that a Federal Reserve Bank's chief asset is gold (today gold certificates). But he knows that his reserves must equal 3% of all his time deposits. If he is a country banker he must maintain a 7% reserve against his demand deposits. In Manhattan and Chicago, the two "central reserve" cities, the reserve requirement for demand deposits is 13%. In all other large cities the figure is 10%. All reserves above those requirements are earmarked "excess...
...once more to its original lofty plane: "I see a man and woman both past three score and ten, sitting in a humble home out in the Far West. Depression has exacted its cruel toll from them after a life ot good citizenship and pioneering in the Their chief asset now and only compensation is that they have contributed to their country four children raised to manhood and womanhood. Thank God it is my privilege to save those two-my own Mother and Father, and devote myself to the saving of all other mothers and fathers...
Between the halves of the Brown Game, came an announcement over the loud-speakers. Harvard Athletic Association funds were insufficient to send the band to Princeton; the band was a much-appreciated asset in the entertainment of the foot-ball afternoon; it was one of the best college bands in the country; it would be a terrible thing if the Band were missing at Palmer Stadium...
...expenses. Nevertheless, the intricate alphabetical evolutions between the halves are a major feature of the afternoon for the average spectator, and to even the most austere enthusiast the prospect of a game without Wintergreen is dull indeed. From the viewpoint of the team, too, the band is definitely an asset. The blare of a brass horn has the heartening effect of a dozen cheers. Enthusiasm next week is expected to be high; Princeton is obviously one of the major opponents of the season and Coach Harlow's men deserve every encouragement...
...real Swede named Ivar Kreuger. Faulkner had built a financial empire largely through finagling on a grand scale. He and a secretary-mistress named Karen Andre (Doris Nolan) arrive in Manhattan where he sets her up in a penthouse. After the Crash he finds that he has only one asset left, his personable self, which he is willing to trade in marriage to the daughter of a big U. S. moneyman if her father will lend him $25,000,000. Not long after this alliance, a man's body with a bullet through it comes hurtling down from the Faulkner...