Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition, signed by about 100 Freshmen, last year caused the Council to appoint a committee to investigate the existing system. The report which this committee made recommended that elections be retained but postponed for a month, from February to March, in order to extend the effectiveness of the Union Committee...
...extend the President's power to fix the value of the dollar anywhere between 50? and 60? oldstyle (present value...
...extend the life of the $2,000,000,000 Exchange Stabilization Fund, created from the paper profit of the original devaluation...
...many little-known facts about William Randolph Hearst's fantastically tangled affairs is that his rival Los Angeles publisher, Harry Chandler of the Times, holds a mortgage on San Simeon. Last month in Los Angeles, rather than embarrass his strapped debtor, Mr. Chandler agreed to extend the mortgage. But it was not Mr. Hearst who made the request. Mr. Hearst was not. in Los Angeles or San Simeon...
Anxious to extend the original subways, the city found soon after the turn of the century that it could do so only on the I. R. T.'s and B. R. T.'s terms, since no bankers would fight their monopoly. After five years of dickering I. R. T.'s then President Theodore P. Shonts put on a great show of letting the city get the better side of the bargain. A man of wit, he remarked: "I was fairly well dressed when I went into that room, but they've taken away everything...