Word: credite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overwhelmed on his claim, startling to lay minds, that the far-flung AP is not engaged in interstate commerce. His brilliant legal argument, his citation of prior cases in which the Supreme Court had ruled that such businesses as insurance, buying and selling bills of exchange and reporting credit standings, are not interstate commerce even though they operate interstate, were swept aside in a ruling that "interstate communication of a business nature, whatever the means of such communication, is interstate commerce regulatable by Congress under the Constitution...
...Players roll dice in rotation, take from compartments numbered two to twelve, according to the total of their dice, an item, headline, picture or special instruction card. Object of the game is to complete the make-up of the newspaper front page so as to gain greatest possible circulation credit. Top story on the printed rating list, which is consulted when all players have "gone to press," is the abdication of Edward VIII: 1,000,000 credits. Bottom story is Hitler's farewell to Prince Bernhard ("Benno") zu Lippe-Biesterfeld departing from Germany to marry Holland's Crown...
...Even without pressure, Britain is already cooperating with President Roosevelt in trying to head off inflation. Buying of U. S. securities by British investment trusts is being "discouraged," and in the past fortnight British banks tightened up on credit to U. S. speculators trading through London...
...Junior Fellows study for three years at the expense of the University and have free use of all its facilities. Receiving no credit for courses and ineligible for any degree, they devote their whole time to productive scholarship and independent research. The Society is designed to meet the problem of associating future creative scholars in a distinct body that will have an attraction for ambitious young men of talent...
...fact that Walsh's course on Labor Problems has grown in enrollment from 44 to 127, and that last year's students in Sweezy's half-year course in Economic Theory approved the course so much that they voted to continue for another term with no extra credit...