Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clarksburg, W. Va., on April 13, 1873. That makes him 51 years old and just about eight months younger than Calvin Coolidge. It is generally reported that as a child he was precocious. As the campaign goes on, the accounts of this precocity will be amplified. At any rate he was graduated from Washington and Lee University at the age of 19. Three years later he took his LL.B. at the same place. From 1915 on, he annexed a whole string of LL.D.' here, in England, in Scotland...
...Beman G. is a brother of Charles G. Dawes,* the Republican candidate for Vice President, and the World added that the latter is "commonly believed to be a heavy stockholder." The World admitted, near the end of the article, that this supposition was "not of public record." At any rate, the Department of Justice is certain to have stirred up a real legal battle, in attacking a group of corporations, including the major companies of Standard Oil. As for politics, the suit should be first aid material for stump speakers, especially if Charles G. Dawes should prove to have...
...effect on the number of children or on their health. There appeared to be no record of physical abnormalities anywhere in the family, and there was only one case of slightly impaired mentality. The only factor noted which might seem to be unusual was the high infant mortality rate, and it was Doctor Murphy's belief that the exceptionally high infant death rate might have resulted from the constant inbreeding...
While money rates are now undoubtedly low, there are plenty of precedents for the present situation in recent years. The rates are now undoubtedly lower than at any time since the entry of the U. S. into the War in April, 1917. Yet 60-day time money went for 2% in June, 1914, 2¾ in July, 1913, and 2½ in early months of 1911 and 1912 both, while it touched 1¾ in midsummer, 1908, and 1½ in 1894. Commercial paper similarly was down to 3½ early in 1911, 1912 and 1914, to 3 from...
There has been agitation in London to drop the Bank of England's rate to 3½ or under to meet New York's cut, and thereby avoid losing financial business to America. More experienced bankers, on the other band, declare this would simply inflate the pound sterling further, and that if the Bank rate is changed at all, it should be moved upwards rather than down...