Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the cheers of bankers and brokers, Harry Truman abruptly demoted Marriner Eccles from the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board last week. In the place of old New Dealer Eccles, the President put Thomas McCabe, chairman of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, president of Scott Paper Co. (tissues). In politics, McCabe is a Republican...
...took Eccles' place was somewhere to the right of Eccles' "unorthodox" doctrines, though perhaps not as far as some loudly applauding bankers thought. Thomas McCabe went to progressive Swarthmore College. He began his career at Scott Paper Co., became a supersalesman and finally president. He has held various Washington jobs, including that of deputy lend-lease administrator. McCabe, like Eccles, is concerned about ways & means to curtail credit. He also believes that great efforts should be made to control inflation. The difference between the two may be largely one of method. Amiable, smiling Tom McCabe gets along with...
...paper event, decided by combining the top individuals' scores in both the jumping and cross country, Halsey once more walked into an easy first, followed closely in fifth place by Taylor...
Last week, on the huge, red-draped stage of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, before hills of spring-hued paper blossoms, Stalin was very much alive. The ceremonies hon ored the 24th anniversary of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's death (Stalin, at 68, has now outlived Lenin by 15 years). Surrounded by assorted party bigwigs, Stalin listened to his new Agitation and Propaganda chief, tousled, turbulent Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, make his maiden speech. It was a right promising debut. Said Suslov...
Next day the crowds demonstrated again, to thank the Regent. One paper hailed "the martyrs of the treaty which Britain wrote with ink to bondage Iraq 20 years, and which Iraqis obliterated with blood in three days...