Word: penned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief of depositors in closed banks; 3) a prohibition against rediscounting R. F. C. securities by the Federal Reserve. Objecting to none of these, the President signed the bill (H. R. 7360) within a few minutes after it reached the White House-"Herbert" with one pen and "Hoover" with another. Then he praised the "patriotism" of Congress. About Washington there was a great hustle and bustle to get R. F. C. operating. Congress sped through an initial appropriation of $500,000,000 as working capital. The Treasury borrowed $350,000,000 on short-term certificates, most of which would...
More eager to face the facts was Benito Mussolini. An article in his own newspaper II Popolo d'ltalia was generally recognized as coming from the pen of II Duce himself. He wrote...
...study for psychologists and professors of literature, the butt of disillusioned liberalism. But with the advent of this book into the world the dying years of the Nineteenth Century became an intensely human period peopled by men and women of flesh and blood. Lytton Strachey with his sardonlc pen had traced in a handful of fascinating actors upon a stage where before there had been only a dingy backdrop. But his contribution to literature was even greater than his kindness to a misused epoch, for he blazed a trail along which other men might follow...
Lytton Strachey's death has robbed literature of a talented witty pen at a time when there is much need of such a pen, for the field which he developed is being invaded by a host of catch penny writers. The loss of his adroit penetration and his aloof irony is only compensated by the literary legacy which he has left to his colleagues...
...also donated an antique inkwell and an ivory pen-knife, both relies of Woodberry. These he originally presented to his poet friend many years ago. The latter, in his turn, handed them down to his nephew, C. D. Woodberry '99, who has returned them, by way of Mr. Flaggler, to the Woodberry collection in the Library...