Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needs of the Treasury have brought about the creation of a floating debt which it will be our sole purpose to reduce, first by the regular repayment of advances to the Bank of France and as soon as possible by consolidation of part of the floating debt...
Possibly the proposed plan will not be approved, possibly it will be amended. But whatever its particular failings and whatever its forte it deserves great consideration for it goes to the root of the matter. It looks in the right direction--towards the creation of a council which will represent not only the bodies but the minds of the undergraduates...
...Benes, as much if not more than any other and man, has been responsible for the creation and the preservation of the Republic of Czecho-Slovakia, the "soundest" nation in Central Europe. Professor Masaryk, formerly of the University of Chicago, is the President, and is known as the "Father" of the new nation. But since its birth, he has not borne a preponderant part of the battle. He has been often sick. Benes is young, of sturdy build, shrewd, quick-witted, with a flair for conversation, light or heavy. When he speaks English he is never at a loss...
...profoundly moved by the news of the death of President Wilson. Having a grateful memory of this great citizen, under whose Presidency the United States brought to France and to her allies, engaged in the crudest of all wars, an inestimable aid, and whose every effort was for the creation of a definite peace by the organization of an international entente, this Chamber addresses to the House of Representatives of the United States the homage of its sentiment of profound regret." The Deputies assented in silence by raising their right hands...
Recent experience has left the proponents of mutual guarantee systems a little less sure of their theories. For the effect of thus guaranteeing a bank against the results of failure was to lead directly to the creation of weak banks run by inexperienced men, and to the acceptance by banks of business ordinarily refused as unsafe. Oklahoma, which gave birth to this plan, has had the bitterest experience with it. It has been found that in periods of pressure, more failures result and greater losses to depositors, than would otherwise occur. Since this guarantee plan has never been introduced into...