Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state (on page 47, Feb. 18 issue) "As for rediscount rates, here again it is the province of the twelve Reserve banks (not of the board) to initiate rate changes." About ten years ago an Assistant Attorney General rendered an opinion to the effect that the power of the Federal Reserve Banks to establish discount rates "subject to review and determination of the Federal Reserve Board" gave the Federal Reserve Board authority not only to review but also to determine, and therefore to initiate, a rate change when and if they so desired. J. F. EBERSOLE Office of the Secretary...
...present the "P. E." has put a small army of engineers in Palestine, to build dams, erect power stations and thus filch electricity from the biblical River Jordan. Since Pinchas Rutenberg is first and foremost a Zionist, the "P. E." is keeping a careful motion picture record of the Jordan "before and after." In so far as possible the engineering staff is kept 100% Hebrew, but Arabs are used for pick and shovel work...
Though the "P. E." is in its infancy, Pinchas Rutenberg has already announced plans for a 50,000 acre irrigation system; and for a "P. E." finance corporation to start and develop enterprises dependent upon electric power. By the time Great Britain's mandate over Palestine expires, it is quite possible that Pinchas Rutenberg will have developed a vertical and horizontal trust so vast that the only way of adequately protecting the capital involved will be to create the Seventh Dominion. Certainly the degraded and impoverished natives of Palestine, who would be raised up to "Rutenberg prosperity" during such...
...must remain in the State for 48 hours. Only in exceptional cases can this be avoided. The defendant need not appear per sonally. But to strengthen the legality of the Sonora decree in the U. S. he or she should recognize the jurisdiction of the court by a power of attorney...
This plan is not only simple and more conservative than any other change recently suggested,, but it has a tangible efficiency and directness of perpose. A thoroughly universal education in economics is essential to alleviate the ignorance of the interrelation of sovereignty, property, power, and conflict which Mr. Hawtrey and Norman Angell suggest as basic causes of war. A general understanding of economics appears to be the simplest, sanest, and most significant educational advocacy among the recent flood of innovations and proposed experiments. With it will come the ideal of having the world think of economic ends in terms...