Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (54-to-9) a bank reform bill by Virginia's Glass, after defeating (58-10-18) a 16-to-1 silver amendment; sent it to the House (see below...
...Pluck" because, with eyes blacked and nose bloody, he had a dogged way of fighting on & on against awful odds. Last week the Senate paid handsome tribute to "Pluck," now a small hawk-nosed Senator of 75. By a vote of 54-to-9 it passed his bill to reform the national banking system and tighten up loose screws in the Federal Reserve machine...
...pointed out by a recent article in the New Republic, the question arises as to whether the control of currency is a real factor in the prevention of such economic extremities as the present depression. The claims of Technocracy show that it is not; the exponents of socialistic reform have long belittled its importance; and even common-sense replies in the negative. By adopting so drastic a step as inflation, the nation not only places itself in a doubtful position, but it affirms that the basis of the present troubles lies no deeper than the workings of the monetary system...
Prince Mike Romanoff, alumnus of Princeton, Harvard, Oxford. Eaton, and several sister institutions, has disappointed his host of admirers. This lightning witted gent who rose from a New York orphanage and sundry reform schools to be lionized by social registries here and abroad has belied his career...
...Debated a bill by Virginia's Glass to reform the U. S. banking system, heard Louisiana's loud young Long tell its aged sponsor: "I happen to know a great deal more about branch banking than you have had a chance to know." ¶Adopted a resolution by Tennessee's McKellar calling upon the Civil Service Commission to report all Federal jobs outside Civil Service and open to "deserving" Democrats after March 4. ¶Debated War Debts and the French default...