Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rife last week with the easy slur of Southern accents. In the haze from their cigars, big cottonmen from the South gleefully watched pretty models step in & out of cotton garments, parade cotton bathing suits, evening gowns and house dresses nimbly converted from cotton feed bags. The National Cotton Council, for the first time since it was formed in 1938, was holding its annual convention in California...
...control of three credit agencies, now independent: the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Export-Import Bank. To coordinate the 30 other U.S. lending agencies, and to advise the President on money matters, it suggested the setting up of a National Monetary and Credit Council...
...getting exclusively the important job of buying & selling U.S. bonds to stabilize the market. This job is now done by the powerful Federal Open Market Committee, five of whose twelve members are Reserve Bank presidents elected by commercial bankers. The board would also be represented on the new Monetary Council...
Devil in the Flesh (Graetz; A.F.E.), when it first appeared in France a couple of years ago, caused the devil of a row. Like the celebrated autobiographical novel on which it was based,* it was rough on French national dignity (the municipal council of Bordeaux denounced it as "shocking, painful and scabrous") but enthusiastically received by the public (it ran to packed houses for more than a year...
Scholarship. In Bristol, England, the children's officer of the city council pointed out that it costs more to send a boy to a state reformatory than to Eton...