Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Few senators last week made hot haste to reach Washington in time for the reconvening of the Senate on Aug. 19. Reason: The Senate Finance Committee, badly stalled on tariff writing, admitted it could not complete its bill before next month. Gentlemen of the Senate had agreed to do nothing...
In Baltimore raged a flagpole sitting craze for children. One "Azey" Foreman, 14, claimed a junior championship with a record of 10 days, 10 hr., 10 min., 10 sec. Soon rivals appeared. In a few days, 21 poles bore young perchers, applauded, tended, pointed out by ambitious parents. Unambitious parents...
Federal Reserve. Last February the Federal Reserve Board harassed the market by convening every Thursday to discuss a raise in the rediscount rate, then reporting "no announcement.'' It formally announced that "when it [the board] finds that conditions . . . obstruct Fed eral Reserve Banks in . . . so managing credit facilities as to...
Governor of the Federal Reserve Board is Roy Archibald Young, 47, solid, capable, popular. When the announcement was made his words were few and cryptic: ". . . [We] have considered how the resources of the Federal Reserve System might best be conserved and made available to meet autumn requirements. The problem has...
Des Moines is a city of a few dozen men. They operate its dozen banks (total resources $80,000,000), its 43 life, fire and casualty insurance companies (total assets $209,684,400), its 400 manufacturing establishments,* its newspapers, national magazines (Meredith Better Homes & Gardens [circulation 1,000,000] and...