Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money only on the bonds or other direct obligations of the U. S. Government, on businessmen's promissory notes covering actual commercial transactions and, a minor point, on credits advanced to agricultural agencies. No other kind of security is eligible for the Reserve's rediscount privilege.? Not one nickel will the Reserve lend on the best industrial bonds, on prime stocks or on A-1 real estate mortgages. In its effort to keep liquid to meet depositors' demands, a bank which has exhausted all its assets eligible for Reserve borrowing must dump its other securities on the market...
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...Chicago, one Edward Blair was arrested for using a slug to make a nickel telephone call. Police found $781 in his pocket...
...service, that he did not make a nickel out of the deal. His intercession, he tried to make Counsel Seabury believe, was only in the interest of international goodwill. Lawyer Hickin refused to waive immunity, would not tell to what Tammany man he passed on $45.000 shortly after N. G. L. paid his fee. Provoked at Investigator Seabury's failure to "pin anything on the higher-ups" in Tammany, the New York Daily News, saucy tabloid, declared: "Stop spraying everybody with skunk juice and bag us a lion...
...valid in other respects. The magnificently, minutely true characterization which Helen Hayes gives to Leora is one of the events of the year. Good shots: rats, outlined in fire, leaving a burning brush village; Leora's reply to Arrowsmith's proffer of marriage: "Have you got a nickel? I want soft music...