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...shall have and may exercise with respect to national banking associations any powers which the state officials having supervision of state banks in the state in which such national banking associations are located may have under state laws now in force or hereafter enacted. If a state Bank Superintendent "froze" 80% of the assets of all state banks and limited withdrawals of deposits to 20% to halt runs, the Comptroller of the Currency, under S. J. R. 256, could promptly do likewise with national banks in that state. His powers in each state were limited only by that state...
...Last week his doctors forbade the King to return to flu-racked London, kept him at Sandringham where a cold snap froze an ornamental pond. While Queen Mary sat placidly on a little bench. His Majesty put on skates, and to the plaudits of his Household and guests scorned his 67 years by cutting slow figure 8's, practicing his inner and outer edge...
...compete with New York's booming Erie Canal. Canal boats, constructed in sections, were trundled through the streets of Philadelphia on low-wheel trucks, hauled to a railway, then chuffed, towed, pushed and slid over the 395 mi. of "State Works" to Pittsburgh. In winter when canals froze, all transportation ceased. It was a thoroughly unsatisfactory procedure, so a group of Philadelphians built the Pennsy...
...Chicago, overheated Karl Marvin tried to cool himself with ice. The trickle down his neck was uncomfortable. He tried it with dry ice (solid CO2), froze both his ears...
...usually wageless, she "lived on bread and lived for gin." When she discovered that her untidy flowers were worth money she grew them for all she was worth, tottered home with many a bottle from the village pub. One winter night she got drunk in the graveyard and froze to death. Her cottage became an arty teashop, which was of course a failure...