Word: state
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nebraska. In Nebraska last month was born a proposal which, had it occurred in their State, would have set the Wisconsin politicians baying with wildest apprehension. The proposal was to form one gigantic State bank for Nebraska, of which every state bank, now independent, would become a branch linking up the chain. Attorney Thomas Stinson Allen, brother-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, representing unidentified Manhattan banking interests, advanced the proposal to the State Government to lift it out of its troubles over the State's Bank Guaranty Fund. To this fund State banks in Nebraska must contribute...
...Allen proposed that the legislature grant a charter to the Central Bank of Nebraska, compel all other State banks to surrender their charters and become Central Bank branches. The Central Bank would pay off the Guaranty Fund's deficit, capitalize at $20,000,000, become the sole depository for State funds...
Frosty Peters and the other Illini chinned themselves into second place in the Big Ten by taking Ohio State...
...anathema at Moscow and sacred at Rome, the Fascist decree under which the seizures were made in Italy last week reads in part: "Property is not an end in itself. Those who own it have special duties with regard to the collectivity of the people, represented by the State. Wealth is something which belongs to all, and to possess it you must know how to administer...
...many years public speaking has been a torture to the stuttering Duke of York. Well known is the fact that in order to avoid saying "K-K-K-King" at moments of state he habitually refers to his father as "His Majesty." Specialists, remembering the Duke's extreme shyness as a child, have for years treated his stuttering psychologically, as caused by nervousness. The treatments were unavailing, His Royal Highness continued to splutter...