Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenth day passed without the President's signing the Muscle Shoals bill. Ten years had passed while the bill was getting through Congress. The "pocket" method of vetoing saves a President the trouble, or embarrassment, of saying why he disapproves. Presumably, President Coolidge "pocketed" the Muscle Shoals bill because it called for Federal operation of the Government's Wartime power-plant on the Tennessee River and for Federal manufacture of fixed nitrogen, which is used in fertilizer and explosives. President Coolidge had urged that the Government lease or sell the power plant and let private interests make power...
...bill shall not be returned [to Congress] by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return; in which case it shall...
...loan that sum directly to speculators, nor all of it. Member banks did the loaning. Much of the money belonged to their depositors; the rest they secured from their Federal Reserve District Banks by re-discounting speculative notes. Astute speculators predict calmly that "brokers' loans" will hit ten billions before so very long...
...Hall. In a letter in the current Alumni Bulletin Dr. Parker acknowledges that the recent reports of conditions in the Department of Biology have not been overdrawn, and describes the efforts that are being made to remedy the situation. The Departments of Zoology and Botany, he reports, have increased ten-fold in sizee, both in the number of students and of instructors; the Department of General Physiology has been added; the Bussey Institute, the Museums and Herbariums have increasingly extended their activities; and yet the buildings which these occupy have not been materially changed or improved in the last forty...
...apathy and even boredom that the Princeton undergraduate finds in his own problem, conceived alumni style, is completely natural. Nowhere does one find the affairs of the University discussed with that sure freedom that is found at the dinner of the alumnus who is ten years out from Sever Quadrangle. Improvement, planful aspiration, avowed democratic principle--all these have a way ofturning will-o'-the wisp when the builders of the report, who are either too safely ensconced in the best clubs to care about action, or are alumni like the Princeton investigator, decide quite humanly...