Word: established
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Floradora. For the Flonzaleys are as unrelated as most teams which have a single name.* There was no Mr. Flonzaley who fathered them all. There was instead a Swiss banker, Edward J. deCoppet, who wanted chamber music in the U. S. He appointed Violinist Alfred Pochon to establish a string quartet, and he named it after his Swiss villa, Flonzaley, which translated means "brooklet...
...also another purpose: to establish in Europe or in the U.S. a Buddhist Institute. In Paris a grant of land has already been given him. But Tai Hsu has not yet accepted. The Institute's purpose will be to clarify Buddhism to the Western world, to represent Buddhism as a religion nowhere antagonistic to scientific theories...
...issue) "As for rediscount rates, here again it is the province of the twelve Reserve banks (not of the board) to initiate rate changes." About ten years ago an Assistant Attorney General rendered an opinion to the effect that the power of the Federal Reserve Banks to establish discount rates "subject to review and determination of the Federal Reserve Board" gave the Federal Reserve Board authority not only to review but also to determine, and therefore to initiate, a rate change when and if they so desired. J. F. EBERSOLE Office of the Secretary Treasury Department, Washington...
...sensationally described as "The Stamp Report" a memorandum in which Sir Josiah Stamp suggested to the Committee that it might be possible to work along the following line: 1) determine how much Germany ought to pay; 2) decide what portion of this amount Germany must pay; 3) investigate and establish the degree of German capacity to pay the rest...
...White keeps in trim by playing golf, a game in which he is not required to slide in the mud on his face. An important executive in a great corporation, he was most circumspect in commenting further on the new fumble rule. Said he: "Admittedly it will help to establish more clearly the superiority of the stronger team insofar as it removes the possibility of scoring through flukes or breaks of that kind. True enough, such cases are rare but important games and even championships have been decided in that...