Word: commas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comma...
...Congress but merely a second assembly of an old one picking up where it left off Aug. 26. The bills then in committee pigeonholes will be found in the same pigeonholes. The status of legislation on the calendar will not have altered by so much as a comma. The old officers of both Houses will resume their duties without reelection. The same committees will automatically begin to function where they left off. And the same faces will appear on the floor...
...West Point the band will spell out "10,000 Men of Harvard," complete with comma, and will present a medley of Harvard songs...
...Stanley of Morgan Stanley & Co. (there is no comma, no hyphen) was the Morgan utility expert, having been admitted to partnership in 1928 when the firm was exploring the power industry. His father was William Stanley, engineer, inventor (thermos bottles) and founder of what is now General Electric's works in Pittsfield, Mass. Born nearly 50 years ago in Great Barrington, Mass., Son Harold was the eldest in a family of nine, and his brother Clarance is now head of the Mellons' Union Trust Co. in Pittsburgh. After graduation from Yale where he led the intercollegiate championship hockey team...
...degree: the twelve regional Reserve Banks would still initiate their rediscount rates, would have five votes out of twelve in controlling open-market operations; power of the Reserve Board to alter reserve requirements would be limited. In short, save for its title, there was hardly a word or a comma of the Eccles bill remaining and Senator Glass got this much-altered measure reported unanimously to the Senate (TIME, July 15). Such was the first political miracle...