Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since Congress amended the Federal Reserve Act in 1917, the legal base of U. S. credit was arbitrarily changed last week. Emerging from a sweltering all-day session in Washington, the Federal Reserve Board announced a 50% increase in reserve requirements for member banks, effective Aug. 15. After nearly a year of public and private debate over the inflationary dangers of excess reserves, Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles had finally taken up the slack in the elaborate brake system provided by the Banking Act of 1935 to stop runaway credit expansion...
...session's end Michelson-tutored Joe McDonald had presumably forecast the general lines of the forthcoming Democratic attack on the Landon record, and his Republican colleagues were referring to him as "Congressman Zioncheck...
...session was called because the Kansas Constitution puts responsibility for public charity on counties, whereas the Federal Social Security Act requires administration by States. In a five-minute message Governor Landon pointed to Republican platform proposals for revising the New Deal social security system, asked the Legislature to project amendments broad enough to permit the State to cooperate in any system which "may ultimately become the settled law upon this question." This the Republican-controlled Legislature promptly...
Capitulations. In Buckingham Palace a gloomy session of His Majesty's Privy Council on Ethiopia last week was cut to 15 minutes. King Edward then signed an Order in Council officially lifting Sanctions from Italy on July 15, so far as Britain is concerned...
...Cabinet and Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg journeyed to Italy to confer in secret with the Dictator on his farm (TIME, June 15). So anxious were Britain and France to find out what this meant that their Foreign Ministers pressingly invited Dr. Schuschnie to meet them in Geneva at the last session of the League, an invitation which he refused...