Word: keown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated the decisions, votes and reasoning of the Board at 15 meetings during 1936, disclosed one surprising fact: the Board was not unanimous but divided on its most generally applauded action, the first, 50% increase in member bank reserve requirements, which took effect last August. The dissenters: Governors John Keown McKee and Chester Charles Davis. Whether they disagreed in whole or in part with the Board's consensus was not revealed. Whether or not they came around to Chairman Eccles' side when reserves were hiked a second time last January (TIME, Feb. 8) presumably will not be known...
...ANXIOUS DAYS-Philip Gibbs-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Story of an old-fashioned English gentleman, by England's popular journalist-author. MEN AGAINST DEATH-Paul de Kruif - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). True tales of little-known fighters against disease. THE CAT WHO SAW GOD-Anna Gordon Keown-Morrow ($2.50). Late great Emperor Nero takes possession of the body of a cat, settles down with an English spinster. Amusing in the English manner...