Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When politicians seek to legislate upwards and fix by law the prices of U. S. farm commodities, a man who wonders what price levels the politicians would recommend is Eugene Meyer Jr., the mentally mobile New York banker whom President Wilson called in in 1918 to direct War Finance Corp., whom President Harding called back in 1921, whom President Coolidge reappointed in 1925, and who last May was made chief of the reorganized Federal Farm Loan Bureau. In his inconspicuous office at Washington, he has received malcontents, and their political spokesmen, during three Administrations. His record of financial diplomacy...
...Rivera, Marquis de Estella. The first almost quadruples Spain's usual appropriation for naval construction and brings the sum available for this purpose in 1928 up to 600,000,000 pesetas ($100,200,000). The second establishes the manufacture of paper as a State monopoly, thus strengthening the direct control over Spanish newspapers already exercised by the present Dictature...
Metropolitan Operatic Males sailing from Manhattan for European vacations, last week, included: Antonio Scotti on the Majestic; Giovanni Martinelli aboard the Aquitania with Prompter Mario Marchesi; and, heading direct for Italy on the Conte Biancamano, Beniamino Gigli & Chorus Master Giulio Setti...
...made to stand forth as a fanatic as convinced of divine inspiration and protection as any divine-right Stuart monarch ever could be. But the dominant impression gained of the man is one of militaristic might, of the martial power that was the weakness of the Protectorate, the most direct contributing cause of the Restoration...
While Professor B. W. Pond '01 is collecting data and photographs of country estates and gardens in England, other members of the department will cover the general field of landscape architecture and city planning. Professor B. V. Hubbard will direct city planning research work in this country under an appropriation from the Milton Fund, and Professor HAMBLIN will devote his time to writing...