Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposed to the presence of laws on the statute book that cannot be enforced and as such demoralize the enforcement of all laws. ... I am not in favor of a national amendment which should force twelve or fifteen great States into a sumptuary system which the public opinion and the real practices of the people of those States would not support. I think it is most unwise to fasten upon the United States a prohibitory system under the excitement of the War, which I do not hesitate to say every sensible supporter of Prohibition in the end will regret...
...Other developments in a week of early season activity included a rumor that Princeton would disown the famed huddle-system which it began to use long before its puzzled rivals. Also the sixth and seventh casualties of the football season took place in hospitals. Leo Goodreau, 19, died of a broken neck in Philadelphia, calling the signals for the play in which he had been hurt. In Washington, Pa., William Charles Young had his back broken in a scratch game. In Orange, N. J., another casualty occurred. A man in a cinema theatre, watching a picture of Bruce Caldwell playing...
...doubled each five years."* He classified, adroitly: "We still have the nation's financial business carried on by literally 57 varieties of banking institutions (48 different kinds of state banks, national banks, federal joint stock land banks, federal land banks, federal reserve banks, federal intermediate credit banks, postal savings system, mutual savings banks, trust companies, private banks...
Glad Hand. Obviously, the sessions of the bankers were heading to a climax. Last of the important speakers was to be no less a personage than Roy Archibald Young, governor of the entire Federal Reserve system.? As the Federal Reserve had taken the lead in the war on speculation, as the credit situation was the only real issue at Philadelphia, bankers waited with intense interest for what Governor Young might say. In Manhattan, the market was uneasy...
...North Carolina football team has not visited the Stadium to engage a Harvard eleven in combat since 1916. In that year a Tarheel aggregation, coached by two Harvard graduates under the famous Haughton system, was turned back by a 21 to 0 count...