Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southeast's idea of itself is increasingly industrial and commercial. Especially is this true of the Carolinas. where all is tobacco, peanuts and power. To Wiinston-Salem on the north, Durham on the east and the Piedmont ("Where Wealth Awaits You") Section on the south, the Duke Power Co. furnishes 849,905 h.p. to light lights and turn wheels. Duke is building additional plants on the Catawba River near Charlotte to furnish 600,000 h.p. more...
Asked which was now the smartest Paris night club, Editor Gwynne said: "Still the Blue Room - unquestionably! . . . The great hit of the Paris stage this year is Paul Bourget's Vient de Paraître. He has very cleverly dramatized the popular idea that nearly all the great French literary prizes are won through pull with. the judges...
...idea has persisted for a long time that among nations, as in families, there are younger and older brothers. One deduces from this idea that the function of acting as tutor, at least in spiritual matters and many times in matters of policing, is exercised by the older brothers with the supposed younger brothers...
...Homer Hoch of Kansas (which is threatened with losing a seat) will make a sharp but probably futile point. He will submit that House seats should be allotted, not on a basis of mass population, but on a basis of the citizens in each State, the voting population. This idea will be hotly fought by California, which stands to gain perhaps six seats in a Reapportionment based on the 1930 census. California's population, like New York's, was swelled enormously between the census of 1910 and the restrictive immigration law of 1924, by immigrants who have...
...Senate and the U. S. public did not become thoroughly aware of him until 1914, when President Wilson appointed him a member of the first Federal Reserve Board. A Senate Committee on Banking and Currency questioned Mr. Warburg, their inquiries colored somewhat by a distorted idea of the Money Demon and Mr. Warburg as an incarnation of it. At that time a Kuhn-Loeb member, and with an income of some half a million a year, Mr. Warburg devoted himself to building up the Federal Reserve system. For four years (1914-1918) he served on the Federal Reserve Board...