Word: member
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Associated Press knew that the third member of "all three of us" was Sir John Cadman, chairman of Anglo-Persian...
Died. Sir James Agg-Gardner, 82, oldest member of the British House of Commons, last of Disraeli's M. P. contemporaries, famed for his 54 years of silence in the House (broken by only two speeches) ; of heart disease; in London. As head of the House catering department, he supervised daily "tea on the terrace," was affably known as "Minister of the Interior...
Week by week the total of brokers' loans mounted. Federal Reserve banks, led by Chicago, raised the rediscount rate to 5%.* Still the member banks reported that corporations and individuals were withdrawing deposits and putting their funds on the call loan market. Last week, U.S. bankers sat down to a serious campaign to end the wholesale diversion of money for speculative purposes...
...corporations. The corporations, for example, might lend their money directly, ignoring the banks. Or they might start a bank of their own. There seemed, last week, a number of ways by which the money market might be taken out of the control of the Federal Reserve and of its member banks...
Died. Robert Weeks Kelley, 75, president of the U. S. Navy League, executive member of the American Olympic Committee; suddenly in Paris...