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Lady Alice, should she ever thumb through Burke's Peerage, would find that her family makes vivid reading. Its motto is Amo ("I love"). Sir Walter, First Lord Scott of Buccleuch (pronounced Buck-clew), "carried on a predatory warfare against the English" and "was delivered up as a hostage upon an adjustment of feuds between the English and Scots...
...punched nose will usually stop bleeding if it is held between thumb and finger for a few moments, if cold water is sloshed into the face, if something cold is pressed against the back of the neck...
...Eccles bill placed the Federal Reserve Board under the thumb of the President by giving him power to appoint and remove at will the Governor and Vice Governor. To this Administration-controlled Board it gave centralized powers to fix rediscount rates and conduct open-market operations (powers that had previously belonged to the twelve regional Reserve Banks throughout the land); authority to alter reserve requirements, and to admit or deny virtually any collateral for rediscount. As the bill emerged after Senator Glass had worked on it, the Federal Reserve Board (renamed the "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
...surveys to be gratifyingly rich in precious metals, oil and other untapped earthly riches (TIME, Feb. 25). He was last week ready literally to defend the lira with Italian blood. Abruptly by a super-drastic step he placed Italy's entire gold resources under his Dictator's thumb...
...nation's currency & credit, stemmed straight down from the White House through the Reserve Board Governor, who would serve at the President's pleasure. Stripped would have been the twelve regional Reserve Banks of what little autonomy they have left, leaving a highly-centralized banking system right under the thumb of the President...