Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through these hectic times Frankfurter has preferred to remain the most powerful member of the "Invisible Brain Trust." Hosts of the younger appointees to legal and administrative positions in the new government agencies owe their appointments to suggestions from Frankfurter. It is through them that his own idees have cropped up so frequently in dispatches from the capital. Many of them belong to the Frankfurter coterie studied under him at the Law School and still keep in regular touch with him. The one piece of work to which Frankfurter's hand was directly applied is the highly controversial Securities...
...profit in gold today belongs to the twelve Federal Reserve Banks, which in turn owe it to their member banks, which in turn owe it to the persons who deposited the gold and the gold certificates. To get around this difficulty some form of confiscation of the profit, either by an outright seizure or by a tax of 100 per cent on all gold profit, is being discussed. Certain constitutional difficulties stand in the way of such a confiscatory tax and it has been suggested that the Federal Reserve Banks voluntarily sign a waiver of all possible claims...
...action of the college seems to have stopped with the slight fine imposed by Danforth in his capacity as justice of the peace. It is due to the investigation made necessary by the more serious scandals concerning the activities of Mary Ruggles, Hannah Arrington, and their accomplices, that we owe these records of seventeenth century Freshmen, their experiments with liquor, and the college's attitude toward...
...under obligation to Boss Koenig, whom the decent Republicans have just driven from power [TIME, Oct. 2]. ... I could not in conscience support the stupid, arrogant [Tammany] leadership that forces upon the city the well-intentioned but impotent figure of the present Mayor. ... As I stand before you, I owe allegiance to no political boss, nor am I hampered or fettered by any allegiance to leader or machine...
...week turned up as grit in the gear box of the Government's whole farm relief program. Did it mean that the Treasury could not pay Domestic Allotment bounties to farmers for plowing up cotton and cutting wheat acreage, without first deducting any debts these farmers happened to owe the Government? If so, some $200,000,000 in bounties would never leave the Treasury and farmers would get only a batch of receipted bills on their Federal loans. Or were bounties not "claims" against which farm loans could be collected? If so, the agricultural adjustment program could go forward...