Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the oaths had been taken the President turned his clear blue eyes upon the group. They passed over Mrs. Roosevelt; noted standing in the background the man who was his economic instructor at Harvard 30 years ago, Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, more recently adviser to the Bank of England; noted youngish Dean Acheson, retiring Undersecretary of the Treasury, tall, lean and dark; noted a couple of assistant secretaries, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, the Directress of the Mint, the Chief of the Secret Service, a member of the Federal Reserve Board; noted, also...
...also defeat and the election of a puppet leader when the Dynasty of Bratianu saw fit to lie low temporarily. Dino Bratianu who now comes to power holds thousands of mortgage-ridden peasants in the hollow of his hand through his presidency of Rumania's national land bank, the Kredit Rural...
...executed. In the course of time he came to be venerated as St. Victor the Martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. Years later his foot, now a relic holy to many a French Catholic, was acquired by the Paris church of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet on the Left Bank. Last week St. Nicolas du Chardonnet mournfully announced that some prowling malefactor had stolen St. Victor's foot, posted a reward for its return...
...first things the American Ornithologists' Union did after its organization in 1883 was to advertise for volunteer observers of bird migrations. From a young New Jersey bank clerk named Chapman came an enthusiastic response. Each weekday morning from early March to late May of 1884 Volunteer Chapman got up at dawn, gulped a cup of coffee, set out with notebook and field glasses to tramp the woods & fields around his home. He had to catch a 7:39 a. m. train to get to his Manhattan job, but when the spring reports were in Chapman's were judged...
...Douglas' Middle Class, there is only one justification for retiring government bonds with taxpayers' money; for destroying their, the taxpayers' purchasing power in order to cancel government obligations; and that is the maintenance of a reasonably stable price level. Any other excuse for canceling bank deposits in order to balance the government's budget is insupportable. The fact remains, as always, that the danger, the only danger, which can attend a manipulation of the quantity of purchasing power is a violent change in the price level. And insofar as such a change in the price level will not attend...