Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero of the Federal Reserve Act was little Carter Glass of Virginia. Last week Senator Glass, now 74, sharper in voice and crustier in manner than in 1913, was again cast in a heroic role. An archfoe of speculation for many a long year, he was bitterly chagrined with 1929?5 great wave of stock inflation in defiance of the Federal Reserve. After a year's investigation he proposed reforms which he felt would halt speculation for good and all?reforms which would alter the entire conduct of a nation's banking, which law-makers called sweeping, bankers devastating...
Enraged by this generality, El Pals of Montevideo flayed the Wall Street tendency "to group all South American Nations together as defaulters," argued that if even Banker Kahn did not appreciate the "heroic sacrifices" made by the Uruguayan people to meet interest and sinking fund charges on their bonds, Uruguay might as well declare a moratorium...
...scholarly sportsmen Derrydale Press reprints Mr. Markland's Pteryplegia: The Art of Shooting-Flying, a treatise in heroic couplets first published in 1727 ($10; de luxe edition...
...necessity took the Vagabond away from his book and drove him up to Widener. The heroic figure of Garibaldi soon evaporated in the thin, rational air of Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps...
...down in its tubes, showed 4° below Zero. Across the bleak Manchurian steppes just south of Tsitsihar snowflakes scudded in a driving blizzard that nipped soldiers' noses, soldiers' ears. Well-publicized Chinese General Ma Chan-shan with 23,000 Chinese troops was about to make his heroic last stand against 3,500 prosaic but efficient Japanese soldiers...