Word: credited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit to the Editors of TIME as "the ablest historians of our day." Future history books will record 1936 as the year of the exploits of one Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson...
...expire Jan. 31. Its great days were gone with the emergency which called it into being. For a year it had been chiefly winding up its affairs, collecting old loans, making few new ones.* But President Roosevelt wanted its lending powers, and those of four subordinate credit agencies,** extended to June 30, 1939. A bill to that effect was reported out by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee...
...neither the agency nor its chair man to which he objected, Senator Byrd explained. For them he had nothing but praise. But the Brookings Institution had calculated that the Government could save $30,000,000 per year by consolidating its credit agencies. One item in the Institution's program was transfer of RFC's as sets to some other agency as soon as its lending activities had ceased. Since reorganization should begin to take effect by July 1938, Senator Byrd proposed an amendment extending RFC only to that date...
Being the only course which rates full credit, English F packs in for one half year all the men trying to learn to speak. It is usually the beginning and cud of their training, for they cannot waste creditless half years in English E and H. Two impromptu talks and three exercises in delivery are the content, along with five major speeches sandwiched between lectures on subjects like persuasion and commanding attention. The semester is capped, mirabile dictu, by a written examination. Thus in effect the sole course, English F tries to accomplish too much, skimming lightly over each topic...
...beginning to be appreciated. And for the first time, the hard heads of the business world are interesting themselves in the employment of men equipped to aid the troubled employee in confronting his own small section of life. Brooks House may be fifty years ahead of the times--more credit to it; the trend is there...