Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state (on page 47, Feb. 18 issue) "As for rediscount rates, here again it is the province of the twelve Reserve banks (not of the board) to initiate rate changes." About ten years ago an Assistant Attorney General rendered an opinion to the effect that the power of the Federal Reserve Banks to establish discount rates "subject to review and determination of the Federal Reserve Board" gave the Federal Reserve Board authority not only to review but also to determine, and therefore to initiate, a rate change when and if they so desired. J. F. EBERSOLE Office of the Secretary...
...weekday last week the House dropped its legislative labors to hold its first group memorial service for the ten Representatives and one Senator who died within the Congressional year. Such services used to be held on Sundays and fine occasions for flowery oratory they were-only nobody came...
...rush hour one evening last week a train of ten carloads of commuters slid down into a Hudson Tube from the Manhattan side. A fire of waste oil was burning on the tracks ahead. The motorman put on speed to pass over it. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. An automatic safety device set the brakes. The train was stalled with its third and fourth cars over the flames. Smoke filled the air. The ant passengers cursed, prayed and moaned, beat, trampled and rescued one another. Three more trains halted behind the first in the confusion...
...twelve Cabinet Ministers taken care to be in the Palais Bourbon and cast their votes, the Government's majority of two would have been a minority of ten, necessitating the resignation of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, famed "Savior of the Franc...
...achievement, he did not even condescend to appear in the Chamber, last week, to defend his Government. Though suffering from only the lightest attack of influenza, the wise old "Lion of Lorraine" kept to his bed, and let the demagogs in the Palais Bourbon roar. For periods of five, ten, 15 minutes it was impossible to distinguish any orator's impassioned periods above the babel. When a vote of confidence was taken - on a trifling issue of local politics - no one seemed to care much whether or not the Government went down, but it didn...