Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Throughout the year the facilities of the Herbarium are freely at the disposal of visiting specialists," Dr. Fernald reports, "and during the summer vacation the building is even busier than during the regular college term, systematic botanists from other institutions in all sections of North America and often in Europe or Asia spending their vacations here, following out their various problems...
...name, in the past he has definitely associated himself with the party which last week read him out, and his late government rested largely upon its support. It is a matter of common knowledge that the Radical Socialist party is less "Radical" than the Socialist, and the term "further on the conservative side" as used in the Crimson was mere editorial comparison. As for "Gallic tastes", Laval's disregard for the League of Nations has been notorious, and as long as he remained Premier his conduct must be taken as representative of a majority of Frenchmen. Whether...
Still persisting in his erudite inquiry, Senator Bailey pressed a hypothetical question: "If in the next 17 months the Treasury undertakes to raise $11,000,000,000 by way of selling bonds or short-term notes, and you should fail to sell them . . . what would be the effect on the economic structure of the Government...
Died. John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, 67, two-term Mayor of New York City (1918-25); of a heart attack; in Queens. A farm boy from upstate New York, he left home at 19, worked as a common laborer before he studied law. Boosted from a city magistrate's insignificance by Tammany and Hearst in their effort to defeat Reformist John Purroy Mitchel, he won the mayoralty election in 1917, fought with his party on transit policy. Finally repudiated by Tammany, which preferred James J. Walker's lighter touch, Hylan ran against Walker and lost in the primaries...
...banking that few other institutions can duplicate. It jumped into the personal loan business. It stressed little commercial loans to little businessmen. It played ball with the Administration, was the first big Manhattan bank to accept RFC money. Its $230,000,000 of Governments consist almost entirely of long-term issues. Other banks fight for low-yield, short maturities every time an issue is offered, but for five years Manufacturers has preferred the higher returns to be had on Governments due in ten years or more. And in explaining his unorthodox policy to stockholders last week President Gibson declared...