Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stiff irregular maneuvers of the knights. Soon there were fewer dancers in the ballet; two sinister queens pranced among them with precise cruelty. The music to which they moved grew faint and there were long periods in which the figurines stood still and the two men stared at the board with a contemplative fury. Finally, after 32 moves, Capablanca made a gesture of concession; the Russian nobleman, using a Queen's Defense, had won the first game in the series...
When Roy Archibald Young newly installed Governor of the Federal Reserve Board rose brusquely from his dining chair at the ninth annual meeting of the American Acceptance Council in Manhattan last week, members studied the blocky, curly-headed man inquisitively. Mr. Young had a reputation for diffidence. When President Coolidge appointed him from comparatively obscure Minnesota to be Board governor, Mr. Young had said: "I consider it a great compliment the President of the United States has paid me. I hope he will never regret the confidence he has placed in me." When asked to what he attributed his rise...
They heard him explain how the Federal Reserve Board had decided to make smoother their financing of foreign commerce...
...Swiss bankers about $109,000,000. The Federal Reserve restrictions have been as a checkrein on U. S. international bankers. Therefore those who attended the American Acceptance Council meeting in Manhattan last week applauded when Governor Young explained the new leniency of the Federal Reserve Board: "Bankers' acceptances may properly be considered as growing out of transactions involving the importation or exportation of goods when drawn for the purpose of financing the sale and distribution on usual credit terms of imported or exported goods into the channels of trade, whether or not the bills are accepted after the physical...
...Members of the Chicago Board of Trade (grain marketing) last week voted to erect a $10,000,000 building of 40 stories. One member sold his seat last week for $10,000, highest sale price since 1919. That year seats were worth $11,100. ¶Again, a buyer for a New York Curb Exchange seat paid a new record price, $65,000. Trader William A. Scott bought it last week. A fortnight ago the record was $45,000 (TIME...