Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devil should you make your trip to France into a pilgrimage? A pilgrimage? That is the idea of our old civilizations, which are always looking backward, thinking about our traditions and our dead...
Security. With the idea of mak-ing the world safe to disarm, the disarmament committee of the assembly unanimously approved the French project of empowering the League Preparatory Disarmament Commission, while arranging for a general conference on limitation and reduction of arms, to study means of making arbitration compulsory and of instituting a graduate system of security among Nations (TIME, Sept...
...speculators' answer was that, good economist though Secretary Jardine may be, he has no idea how sensitive the cotton market...
Into the Portland Club in London one afternoon in the last decade of the 19th Century, strode Lord Brougham with an idea. He summoned three of his acquaintances around him and called for a pack of cards. He outlined to them a game that later was to become known as Bridge Whist. That afternoon, as far as anyone can accurately tell, was the birthday of a card game which spans the civilized world, which later developed and fastened itself more firmly on the white man's leisure as Auction Bridge; and now promises to take another step and monopolize...
Before the Federal Reserve Act became law in 1913 and was still in discussion, local bankers wanted the rediscount rates fixed by the proposed regional banks. The late William Jennings Bryan and his Democrats opposed that idea vigorously. The rates, said they, should be established by some central in-stitution?the Federal Reserve Board. The compromise: the boards of directors of each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks were to submit to the Federal Reserve Board at Washington for approval, a rediscount rate for their particular region. The Board was presumed able only to veto, not to initiate rates...