Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cherrie, veteran explorer and naturalist, will deliver a talk in the Living Room of the Union Wednesday at 7.30 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be, "With the Roosevelts Through Central Asia." H. W. Bragdon '28 Vice-President and undergraduate member of the Governing Board of the Union, will preside...
Rains. Over the Central Plateau of Mexico the rains descended and the floods arose, threatening inundation of Mexico City. Hundreds were rendered homeless; crops in large areas were ruined; railroads were washed out at many points; canals burst their banks; a bull ring almost collapsed; many houses were partially submerged...
...massive platform last week. The cheese weighed 2,000 Ibs. and in its way was as notable as the notables who stood about it, sniffed at it, rolled a slice from its savory bulk over their tongues-Governor Dennis Murphree of Mississippi, President Lawrence Aloysius Downs of the Illinois Central, President John H. Kraft of the Kraft Cheese Co., and many another...
Before the Federal Reserve Act became law in 1913 and was still in discussion, local bankers wanted the rediscount rates fixed by the proposed regional banks. The late William Jennings Bryan and his Democrats opposed that idea vigorously. The rates, said they, should be established by some central in-stitution?the Federal Reserve Board. The compromise: the boards of directors of each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks were to submit to the Federal Reserve Board at Washington for approval, a rediscount rate for their particular region. The Board was presumed able only to veto, not to initiate rates...
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...