Word: benjamin
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Until last August the rediscount rates of all 12 Federal Reserve Banks had been, for a relatively long time, 4%. Then in July when chiefs of the English, French and German central banks of issue visited with Governor Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, (TIME, July 11), men came from Manhattan, according to the Chicago Journal of Commerce, asking that Governor James B. McDougal of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank initiate a movement (which the other banks might ostensibly follow), to reduce the general 4% rate to 3½%. If money could be borrowed cheaply...
...them of unfair bargaining. California protested that the 20-year clause was meant simply to protect one and all from the possibility of demands and projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses a corner of that country to reach the Gulf of California. But U. S. Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming forced California's hand by eliciting this admission from a California spokesman: "If Arizona is willing to grant California a larger allocation, California will grant her more time for development...
According to the Journal of Commerce those re-discount reductions were the result of the recent visit with Governor Benjamin Strong (the New York Federal Reserve Bank) of Governor Montagu Norman (the Bank of England) Deputy Governor Charles Rist (the Bank of France)' and Dr. Hjalmar Schact (head of the German Reichsbank) (TIME, July 11). Those visitors went with Governor Strong to Washington for a conference with members of the Federal Reserve Board...
Died. Mrs. Sophie Ridgely Harrison, 100, sister-in-law of the late U. S. President Benjamin Harrison; in Cincinnati...
...There have been six Jewish U. S. Senators?Philip Judah Benjamin, Louisiana (1853-61); Simon Guggenheim, Colorado (1907-13); Benjamin Franklin Jonas, Louisiana (1879-85) ; Isidor Rayner, Maryland (1904-10) ; Joseph Simon, Oregon (1897-1903) ; David Levy Yulee,* Florida (1845-51 and 1855-61). There were ten Jewish Representatives, no Jewish Senators in the 69th Congress. A Jewish Cabinet officer was Oscar Straus who was Secretary of Commerce & Labor in Roosevelt's Cabinet (1906-09). Probably the highest public office held by a U. S. Jew today is the seat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench occupied by Louis...