Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year's Day at the Treasury Department. Instead of making resolutions for the future, the Treasury custom is to review the past. Secretary Mellon issued his report on fiscal* 1928. Meantime, Brigadier-General Herbert Mayhew Lord, Director of the Budget, worked away at plans for fiscal 1929 preparatory to laying them before President Coolidge at Brule next month. Secretary Mellon began by talking about the biggest figures of all on the national ledger-the national debt. It had been reduced by $907,000,000, bringing it down to $17,604,000,000. The average rate of interest paid upon...
...number of men elected to the Society each year from 45 to 65. Other important business which will be dealt with at the meeting includes a proposal to change the day of the Phi Beta Kappa ceremonies during Commencement Week from Friday to Monday. This would revive a former custom and be more convenient for members...
...Well, perhaps disturbed, but not discouraged. Down, but not out. We accept the challenge. . . . Expenditure will be kept inside revenue, no matter what the decrease in revenue may be." General Lord stared the deficit in the face, recalled the black days of 1919: "In certain localities it is the custom to refer to the year of the big snow or the great flood. ... I think our Treasury will always refer to 1919 as the year of the big debt and big deficit" (debt, $26,596,701,648.01; deficit, $13,370,637,568.60). But happier days are at hand: (estimated debt...
President of Tokyo Electric Light is the very old fashioned, although comparatively young Shohachi Wakao, 45. His natal family was the Hirose. But by an intelligent Japanese custom whereby powerful families maintain succession of their primacies, he was adopted (1896) into the great Wakao family of bankers, and later reverently married Kiyono, the daughter of Tamizo Wakao. Like Chairman Baron Seinosuke Goh, President Shohachi Wakao has legal training, is a member of the Japanese house of peers, and holds several corporate directorships...
...Copenhagen, Maria Jeritza (Baroness von Popper), famed "golden" soprano of the Metropolitan, sang in Tosca twice, Carmen once, Tannhauser once. Contrary to their polite custom of appearing at only one performance in an operatic series, the King and Queen of Denmark, dressed in their bravest regalia, sat in their box every time Jeritza sang. The King gave the singer a decoration encased in a gold medallion and asked her to attend an intimate family party at the palace after her first performance. This Mme. von Popper did with dignity and delight...