Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capper bill authorizes the 12 Federal Reserve banks to discount notes, drafts, or bills drawn for an agricultural purpose...
Governor Norris denied the extreme view that the System controls the volume of credit, calling attention to the facts that it has no dealings with the speculative markets and no direct contact with the general public; that two-thirds in number of the banks of the country have no discount relations with it at any time, and that it is seldom that more than half of the remaining third, or one-sixth of the total, are borrowing from Reserve Banks...
...will in the future make increasing use of the monthly bulletins issued by the Federal Reserve Board and by the regional banks, watch carefully the reserve ratio of the banks as reported weekly, and take timely warning of the changes in credit conditions indicated by changes in the discount rates of the Reserve banks
...cent discount is allowed to all Harvard Students. Price list sent on request...
...disown their opinions in the editorial columns. This illustrates a fundamental difference between English and American journalism. The former assumes responsibility for all that appears on its pages, while the latter takes it for granted that its readers will not take signed articles at their face value, but will discount the personal element. This policy is quite in accord with democratic standards, and approaches the ideal condition; but unfortunately it presupposes either an intelligent public, or a public which reads editorials, both of which are rare commodities. Unless these articles are plainly labeled "Private" and fenced in a special column...