Word: ties
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fearful of political contamination. In the Glass draft the Reserve Banks have a strong voice in, though not control of, the country's credit policies. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency are dropped as ex officio members of the Board, thus breaking that political tie. The name of the Federal Reserve Board is changed to Board of Governors?seven men, not more than four of whom belong to the same party, serving for 14 years and removable only for cause. The President will designate one as chairman for a four-year term. Furthermore, the Reserve...
...afternoon of March 27 a neat little Chinese student in blue serge suit, brown tie and rimless octagonal spectacles was seen sprinting for dear life across the campus of Northeastern Oklahoma State Teachers College at Tahlequah. Daniel Shaw (born Hing Sieu) had traveled all the way from Hongkong in 1931 to study in the U. S., had wandered through colleges in Walla Walla, Wash.. San Francisco, Lynn, Mass., Cicero, Ill. and Lexington, Ky., trying to make up his mind whether to be a missionary or a diplomat. Finally he ended up in Tahlequah to study American Indian lore...
...educational problems, he is not primarily a theorist. The New Plan, as he has often pointed out, is the work of many minds. His genius lies in possessing the courage and vision to effect new plans, the ability to administer them to success. As yet he has no political tie-ups, though he has served on the Chicago Regional Committee of the National Labor Relations Board, chair-manned numerous long-named public commissions...
...When Nazi newsorgans make their "pure race" point about the French being a "Negroid people" they commonly print a picture of M. Laval whose dead white tie makes his face appear by contrast even swarthier than...
...Iroquois Theatre. Up through a sidewalk grating crawled a blackened figure in stage costume, then another & another. They gasped a few words about the carnage inside. Cub Howey dashed into a saloon next door, telephoned his editor (who was certain Howey was drunk), paid the bartender $5 to tie up the telephone, one of the few in the neighborhood. When the day was over, boxcar headlines were screaming "736 DEAD...