Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indianapolis, last week, the apostolic, frock-coated figure of Evangelist Paul Rader, onetime prize fighter, dominated a group of determined antievolutionists. Defenders of the Christian Faith, they called themselves. Their plan: "To establish 48 nerve centres [one in each State] for the suppression of pernicious teachings that are undermining the very moral fibre of our youth...
...Board is not the entire System. The twelve Federal Reserve banks and some 9.000 national and state banks that are members of the System have large and definite powers of their own. Stock in the 12 Federal Reserve banks belongs not to the government but to the member banks. Most of the money in the Federal Reserve banks belongs not to the U. S. but to the member banks. The essential theory of the Federal Reserve System is that the member banks in each district get together, pool their resources and form a virtually inexhaustible reserve fund upon which...
...long been the foremost patron of education in the almost feudally du Pont state of Delaware and brother Pierre is reputed to have wanted to retire from active business before the du Fonts ever bought into G. M. C. Moreover, it is a du Pont tradition for elders to make way for juniors. T. Coleman (elder cousin), Pierre, Irenee and Lammot were successive presidents of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...more confused, however, with the death of his wife, his engagement to the woman he thought he loved, and his falling desperately in love with a third women. Not having much strength of character, and desirous of letting things drift on as they are he eventually slips into a state of mind from which he never recovers...
Many private institutions have already taken the lead in this field and with the current discussion of state institutions, brought to a head by Little's resignation from the presidency of Michigan University, some action which will raise the entrance requirements of state universities is highly probable in the future. In any case it seems hardly fair to criticise the business man for taking a college degree as representing a standard of intelligence above the average. The question is more one which demands action from our educator more than from the general public...