Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Relief was given more time than any other subject. The orator began with analysis and expression of deep solicitude. He totally avoided "equalization fee." His promises: 1) "to search out the common ground"; 2) benefit of tariff; 3) waterways, principally Great Lakes to Atlantic; 4) Federal Farm Board with money to spend. ... "A nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program that will give to one-third of its population their fair share of the nation's prosperity. . . . The working out of agricultural relief constitutes...
...playful, cultured and immensely able head of an immensely potent firm of private bankers, Hayden, Stone & Co.; Charles Hayden, keen bridge player and a director of probably more famed companies than any other financier, took an immensely important command in the Republican political army. He agreed to collect the money from New York State, from which most of the money must come. Mr. Hayden did not apologize; he was proud to serve. Mr. Hayden did not resign anything; no one even remotely hinted that he should. He had just as much right as any truck driver to work...
...Last week, Lawyer Frank G. Raichle of Buffalo adopted the extraordinary course of filing suit in Federal Court to restrain the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, from raising the rediscount rate. Cried Lawyer Raichle: "Artificial stringency! Propaganda! Money despotism! Paternalism!" Charged Lawyer Raichle: "The Federal Reserve Bank has been illegally engaged in the arbitrary reduction of business through the fixing of high rediscount rates...
Formal Dress. Since the War, it has been permissible, though not desirable, for women to wear the same gown at a luncheon or at an afternoon tea, at dinner or at a ball. This year, pre-War distinctions are again in evidence. With more money to spend on clothes, the well-dressed woman will have rich and luxurious gowns for formal wear...
...Hochreich, president of Vocafilm Corporation of America, makers of a talking picture device that theretofore had been obscured by Movietone (parade music, gunfire) and by Vitaphone (Ben Bernie, tapdancing, Frances Williams). Unofficially, the newspapers said that Hochreich and the theatre shoguns had made a deal: Hochreich to receive money, the producers the rights to his invention...