Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the questions to which Chairman Glass sought answers: 1) Why did 6,000 banks out of 30,000 fail in the U. S. in ten years? 2) What did the Federal Reserve do to check 1929 stock speculation? 3) What effect has branch banking on U. S. finance? 4) What new laws might stop excessive stock speculation? 5) What new powers does the Federal Reserve system need? 6) How can banks' security subsidiaries be controlled and regulated? 7) How can competition for bank charters between States and the Federal Government be reduced...
...Hampshire editors fail to unsnarl in a day the financial tangle of a century, New Hampshirites can still recall with pride the two great journalists whom the state produced: Horace ("Go West") Greeley and Charles A. Dana (New York Sun). Or if the present-day lawmakers and tax experts are to be taken to task, it is yet true that New Hampshire, one of the 13 Original States (which-neighboring Maine & Vermont were not) has given the U. S. many a famed statesman. Among them: Josiah Bartlett, "Signer"; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln; Governor John...
...blatant absurdities accepted by the American and English public might well give the Moscow authorities ground for ridicule. People who take every statement from the Soviet Union as a piece of propaganda for world reform often fail to realize that propagandists can exist on both sides and that their own position has no better justification. The Pravda might supersede the proposed Columbus expedition with an international five-year plan against unfounded prejudices...
Pounding the table in his earnestness Elder Statesman Root declared: "I strongly desire that the U. S. should do its duty to the future of civilization. While the World Court may fail, God forbid that it should fail because America has failed to do her part...
...what those who take no part in the extra curricular life fail to realize is that however insignificant the ends, the process of work for a cause outside of one's self is a strengthening one. It is in such work that the character and the will are best nourished, and not by introspective selfishness. --Yale News...