Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, representing unidentified Manhattan banking interests, advanced the proposal to the State Government to lift it out of its troubles over the State's Bank Guaranty Fund. To this fund State banks in Nebraska must contribute one tenth of one per cent of their average deposits per year, to be used to pay depositors a share of their losses in State banks that fail. So many Nebraska banks have failed that the fund is now $20,000,000 in the red. A special assessment against State banks to replenish the Guaranty Fund...
...weighted average of the team representing Exeter was 90.27 per cent; it was closely followed by Boston Latin School, winner for the last four years, with 89.78 per cent. There were 21 teams in competition for the Trophy...
...important aspect of the plan is that a competing school need not send any of its boys to Harvard. Of the winning group this year, three, H.H. Bissell '33, with an average of 91.3 per cent, R.C. Wells '33, with 89.8 per cent, and W.H. Stein '33, with 89.25 per cent are at Harvard; two, B.B. Priest, with 91.91 per cent, and R.H. Jordan, with 90.15 per cent, went to Yale; and the others, R.H. Harris, Jr., with 90.50 per cent, and R.C. Gordon, Jr., with 89 per cent, went to Princeton...
Democratic Field Marshal Simmons wanted to get back to New Bern, N. C.. where a bank failure, he explained, had cost him every cent he had. He it was who proposed the truce?adjournment of the special session, putting the tariff over to December. On the vote the Young Turks marched into the breach and turned the tide of battle by joining with Insurgent Republicans and a handful of insatiable Democrats to defeat (51 to 34) the adjournment resolution...
...banks?as in the case of Britain, France, Italy and Belgium?but, according to Article Six, by "Messrs. X, acting in place of the Bank of Japan, and Messrs. Y of New York." Of course "the Messrs. Y" will be J. P. Morgan & Co. Thus without putting up a cent the Federal Reserve?traditionally in closest touch with the House of Morgan ?will have a major "phantom stake" in the Bank. The same arrangement appealed to cautious, bespectacled Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who, by advice of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, prefers like President Hoover to keep-the-government...