Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition in many quarters. The conservatives feared that his election would mean the decline of their influence. The Overseers referred the nomination to a committee on March 18 and received a favorable report from the committee on April 7. However, Eliot was not formally elected President until after several counter resolutions and motions had been passed. His election came on the second voting of the Overseers...
...taxes, had urged every bank to take ad vantage of it. The seven banks which decided to face all comers included Reno's First National which sent to San Francisco for $1,500,000 in cash and announced it stood ready to pay $3,000,000 over its counter. When this halted an incipient run President Richard Kirman beamed at depositors and cried, "Come and get it tomorrow, there is plenty of it!" Also open were two banks in busy Las Vegas. nearest railroad town to the Hoover Dam operations...
...measured rhythm of 2400 polished boots falling as one announce to the Charles the most glamorous of fall contests. Buffalo, Yale, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, all can furnish but dull counter-parts of Harvard, like Harvard preparing grubbing, grubbing, grubbing students with the elements of an education with which to fashion life. But with the Cadets comes a romance more real, more vital, than the round of artificial pleasures offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose...
Exactly one year ago Spain's Constituent Assembly drew up the new Republic's Constitutional article providing broadly for "separation of church and State." That same day dynamic, counter-religious Don Manuel Azana became Premier of Spain. Last week he was still Premier-no mean record, considering Spain's tribulations. Firmly entrenched. Premier Azana celebrated his first official birthday by presentation to the Cortes of Spain's new Law of Religious Orders. This act, which Spaniards believed certain to pass, will implement the Constitution's counter-religious clauses, much as the Volstead Act implements...
...existence which are responsible for similar practices and should properly he subjected to the same rate. Their managements, however, by a magic of circumstances have succeeded in escaping the clutches of the law. It is fortunate that there still are companies with enviable managerial records. This, however, does not counter-balance the existence of companies whose managements are willing to practice inflation and deception of the public by paying dividends out of capital. The necessity for Federal regulation, therefore, still remains...