Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entertain as well as to inform. The first of the following resolutions was by far the most popular of those submitted for the approval of the colleges: Resolved, That Emancipated Woman is a Curse: Resolved. That Loyalty is the Curse of the American College: Resolved. That the Jury System should be abolished...
...financial world, the outstanding 1928 developments reviewed by Mr. Mellon were 1) the movement of 500 millions in gold out of the U. S.;* 2) the consequent extension of credit by the Federal Reserve system; 3) the increase of speculation by "powerful groups" and the general public, which "believed and acted as if the price of securities would indefinitely advance"; 4) the reversal of Federal Reserve policy, sending money rates aloft...
President Coolidge sent to Congress his sixth and last annual Budget message. Budgeting the U. S. began only two years before he became President, so he felt justified in reviewing the system's success as part of the Coolidge...
...Ways & Means Committee of the House asked Prohibition Commissioner Doran how far his $13,500,000 enforcement allotment would go. "It is a matter of policy," he replied. "If Congress wants to embark in the police business it will take $300,000,000 a year and a system of United States courts covering the land...
...United States of America. Senhor Santos-Dumont satisfied them-by describing an invention, his "Martian transformer," a device with which one can walk faster and with less effort. It is to be fastened to a walker's back; his strides activate it; it in turn "energizes his nervous system." He may climb mountains with as little effort as walking a sidewalk. A larger machine should enable one to walk "in birdlike flight." U. S. neurologists consider the device's description poppycock...