Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specifically, Mr. Warburg urged a raising of the Federal Reserve 5% rediscount rate. "When commercial paper commands 3¾% and when bankers acceptances sell at 3?%, rediscount rates of 4½% and 5% seem grotesquely impotent and out of line. . . . Conditions such as these call to mind the painful events of the years...
Money Market. There is no argument but that a Federal Reserve rediscount rate of 5½% would be more in keeping with present credit conditions than the 5% rate now obtaining. Last week call money was at 8% to 12%, time loans at 7¾%, commercial paper at 5¾%, bankers' acceptances (60 days) at 3 3/8%. The Federal Reserve rediscount rate was at the very bottom of the money market, was lagging far behind the general trend toward higher and higher interest rates. Theoretically an index to prevailing conditions, the 5% rediscount rate was actually an exception to them. That...
Cameramen beset Charles Francis Adams, new Secretary of the Navy, in his office. They posed him in half a dozen positions, ordered him this way and that. In silence he bore their directions. Finally one cameraman called out, "Please write something on a piece of paper, Mr. Secretary." He wrote. The cameras clicked. On the paper were the words: "This is hell. C.F. Adams...
...Sportsman Pilot, a monthly magazine devoted to the activities of amateur flyers, took the air last week. On shiny paper cut slightly larger than this page, Editor Darwin J. Adams and Managing Editor Franklin Pinkham printed articles and pictures calculated to make as-yet-wingless readers look skyward. Publicist Fitzhugh Green tried to explain why Commander Byrd is in the Antarctic. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, discoursed on woman's status in aviation...
...Empress Sadako at the elaborate court of Heian. Not the least of her qualifications for the post was her handwriting-the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance view of a lady's writing. On scented rice-paper Shonagon traced her delicate characters, decorating her "poems" with puns and symbols, word play and subtle metaphors. Her diary is less fancy and more amusing than her verse. She divided experience into "Disagreeable Things," "Very Tiresome Things," "Deceptive Things." Under "Annoying Things" she lists: "When one sends a poem...