Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second such record. With bone-dry formality it stated the decisions, votes and reasoning of the Board at 15 meetings during 1936, disclosed one surprising fact: the Board was not unanimous but divided on its most generally applauded action, the first, 50% increase in member bank reserve requirements, which took effect last August. The dissenters: Governors John Keown McKee and Chester Charles Davis. Whether they disagreed in whole or in part with the Board's consensus was not revealed. Whether or not they came around to Chairman Eccles' side when reserves were hiked a second time last January...
...York's Floyd Bennett Field, Edward Somers, 12-year-old son of Brooklyn Congressman Andrew L. Somers, stepped into an airplane, took off for a 15-min. solo flight, then made a perfect three-point landing. The Bureau of Air Commerce, which prohibits persons under 16 from piloting airplanes, promptly started to investigate and discovered that Edward had an illegal student's permit. While Edward was packed off to his grandfather's, his father, a War pilot, admitted: "Frankly, I tried to get the Air Bureau here to waive the age limit but the Bureau refused...
...placed, average monthly salary $115. Yale: 45% placed, salary $120. Princeton, "anyone who wanted to land a job could do so." Harvard, "being hired 15% ahead of 1936." Columbia, "1937 will join 1936 and 1930 as peak years." Stanford, "50% increase in placements, salaries $105." U. S. Steel took 594 from 91 colleges, American Telephone & Telegraph 300, General Electric 700, Goodyear Tire and Firestone no each...
...Portsmouth, a bravo who could safely thumb his nose at civil authority, could even sell some pictures. Beauteous, snobbish Elizabeth, long out of his reach, began to bend towards him. Then came great Major Rogers himself, to be lionized. He treated Langdon bluffly as an old pal-and took his girl away from him. Langdon, heartbroken, sailed for London to learn more about painting. There,.four years later, he met Rogers again, still a great man but with the cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will-o'-the-wisp short...
...daughter of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, sister of Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; to Aubrey Niel Morgan, Welsh cricket player and Cardiff department store executive, widower of Sister Elisabeth Morrow who died in 1934; in North Haven, Me. It was in his family's home that Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh took refuge after their flight from...