Word: folding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bray Hammond, writing in the New Republic, expresses some of this righteous indiguation. Though a little radical, at least his indictments against American banking appear sound. His criticism is two-fold. In the first place, he contends that there are too many banks. Where one strong institution might adequately serve a whole region, there are five weak banks struggling for existence. When crises come, some of these are bound to go under. In the second place Mr. Hammond points to the hopeless chaos in which the dual system of control, state and national, has resulted. Two different sets of rules...
...went to the Republican national convention at Chicago, clashed violently with the Old Guard that renominated Taft, bolted with Theodore Roosevelt whom he had never met. He accepted the Bull Moose vice-presidential nomination. In 1916, still Governor, he was back in the Republican fold when Charles Evans Hughes visited California under Old Guard auspices. They failed to meet, though for some time they were under the same hotel roof. Johnsonites were insulted. Hughes lost the State and the Presidency while Johnson was elected to the Senate where he has served continuously since 1917. In 1920 he missed a White...
...affair is to be an informal one, and will be followed by a two-fold entertainment, literary and musical. In the former, Professor K. B. Murdock '16, master of the House, will read selections, probably from Benchley, and P. G. E. Miller, tutor, will render a slight skit in the manner of Edgar Lee Masters, which he has procured from "a certain mysterious source...
...pole, as they streak their messages across the country. Under great lakes of cold water, across rivers, and rolling on the bottom of black oceans, the dirty, slimy cables tremble with the news they carry to foreign lands. The air is alive with wave lengths, criss-crossed a thousand-fold...
...Malta is a part of Italy unredeemed." Nationalists retorted that if Baron Strickland were really a "faithful son of Holy Church" as he claimed in his letter to be, then the British Premier ought to be working zealously for return of Malta to the temporal as well as spiritual fold of Rome...