Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having cut reserves by one or both of these means, Chairman Eccles could then apply the final brake-upping of the rediscount rate. At present this action would be ineffectual, for banks do not need to borrow from the Reserve. The weakest link in this brake chain is the fact that selling of the Reserve's Government bonds would be flatly contrary to Treasury policy so long as there are huge budget deficits to be financed...
...forward post, and Arnold Litman will pair up with Vernan Struck at the guard positions. Although Litman is small, Fesler considers him the best ball handler on the squad. Kept back at first by early season injuries, he has shown so much improvement lately that he will rate a regular berth...
...presented. The audience was able to pick out the logical villain but even the denouement at the end is almost entirely disconnected from the evidence in the proceeding scenes. Chan is also spoiling the use of Chinese proverbs as a means of building character interest and is using fourth-rate ones in the present case. The minor roles, except for Herbert Mundin who plays the part of Baxter, the butler, are unimportant...
...cheer, two shivers?". . . About the cheer you may be right when you say I "was for the new commander's reputation as a thoroughly experienced, altogether first-class Navy man," although you do not fully express it. The fact is Vice Admiral Hepburn is known as a first-rate seaman; an indefatigable worker; a profound thinker; a man of keen judgment and a master of his profession, who, by training, experience and professional attainments, is thoroughly fitted to be Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet. May I ask why this stuff about "selling the navy...
...realm of publicity and advertising." One of their friendly ideas was the Old Masters Series which Swiss Artist Louis Rivier suggested to the Swiss company. Artist Rivier set to work, produced four pictures. Nestlé arranged for them to be printed in L'lllustration at an advertising rate of about $2,250 a page...