Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Bankers' Association last year against branch banking; its alleged purpose was to strengthen the Reserve System. Such legislation is, however, distinctly dangerous to this very purpose, since national banks must compete with state banks, and if state charters allow more latitude than national, existing national banks will convert into state banks, as the Irving has recently done. The privilege of issuing banknotes yields so little profit to a national bank, that its surrender is not a serious consideration...
...Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Manhattan, which became a convert to fuel oil, has stated that the saving gained thereby is estimated at $25,490 during the first six months. On the average 130 to 140 gallons of oil are equivalent to a ton of coal...
...city after the convention, there to pay a tribute at the grave of the late Susan B. Anthony, long one of the leading champions of woman's rights. It is worth while noting, however, that at the time of the convention of 1848, Miss Anthony was not yet a convert to the ideals espoused at that meeting...
...Flexner is an enthusiastic convert to the value of insulin, and declares there have been no failures in its beneficial effects. A committee of nine distinguished physicians, appointed by Dr. Banting, discoverer of the specific, and including Drs. Campbell and Fletcher, Toronto; Joslin and Fitz, Boston; Wilder, Rochester, Minn.; Geyelin, N. Y.; Woodyatt, Chicago; Allen and Sherrill,, Morristown, N. J., has just reported to the same effect, after nine months of rigorous clinical experiments. Insulin has in less than one year gained the complete approval of the medical profession. It is not, however, a permanent cure, and must be administered...
...Wireless Salvation. Cardinal Dubois, Archibshop of Paris, is a radio enthusiast and has a receiving set in his Archiepiscopal Palace. But he thinks that radio is powerless to save souls. " Broadcast sermons cannot be expected to convert anyone. Wireless is too dry and cold to have an effect. Personal magnetism is lacking...