Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Eccles wanted to give the Board power to alter at will and in any degree the reserves that member banks must by law maintain, so that it might apply brakes to any runaway credit inflation. The Glass Bill limits the possible upping of reserve requirements to double the present ratios. The Eccles draft would have made any & all bank assets, short-or longterm, liquid or frozen, eligible for rediscount. The Glass Bill provides for special Reserve Bank advances on ineligible paper in emergencies only. And thus throughout Title II Governor Eccles and Senator Glass both achieved their original aims...
...like most royalty, was less racially pure than many of his subjects. His mother, Princess Clementina, was German-Polish, the granddaughter of John Sobieski, famed Turk-toppler. From her Prince Charlie inherited his charm, his love of adventure. Clementina's marriage with Pretender James was a runaway to romance that turned into a drab political alliance; the Old Pretender was not the glamorous figure his son turned...
...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...
Majestic: "Runaway Queen...
...what heretofore has always been politely, if inaccurately, referred to as a "boom." Such a "boom" may be of unprecedented proportions, but the Government has unprecedented powers to control it. Whether it will is another question. "A moderate and reasonable expectation is that there will be control and no runaway inflation of the flight-from-the-dollar variety within the next two or three years. Beyond that it is impossible...