Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some of these crises were panics. "We men of the Congress have prevented such crises; we invented a new financial tool. ... In England last week Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, great institution, and onetime (1915-16) Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain, marveled at our device; suggested that a modification of it be applied to British banking. . . ." The twelve Federal Reserve Banks,* whose charters the Congress last week voted to extend indefinitely beyond 1934, are banks of discount. Member banks-and all national banks must be members of the Federal Reserve...
...That the Triple Agreement (the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Agreement of 1916, together with all revisions now incorporated in it) shall continue as the code governing the joint athletic relations and contests between Harvard and Yale, but Section 3 of Article VI of the agreement of January 1, 1923 shall read: "No post-season contests or contests for the purpose of setting sectional or other championships shall be permitted...
...That either party to the present agreement between Harvard and Yale may withdraw upon six month's notice preceded by joint conference...
...Next day he traveled about the city in his Lincoln motorcar, without overcoat; spent five minutes with the President; routed Michigan Senator Couzens from the Senate to sign a joint telegram to Michigan Governor Fred W. Green, protesting against capital punishment; avoided the Ford stock income tax hearings, which concerned nine of his onetime stockholders...
Strange, affecting stories are told of their inseparability, their confidence, understanding of each other. Every move seems the result of joint thought and decision. It is thought that O. P. usually takes the lead, but if O. P. may speak for M. J. so may M. J. speak for O. P. With two minds made up, they are difficult to swerve. It is gossiped that even their personal checkbook is a joint affair, either signature being valid...