Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...country since the Civil War. The universal tendency has been to combine and form monopolies. Railroads, industrial corporations, and public-utility organizations have all joined into communities of interest, and have consolidated, usually by owning one another's stocks. Now what is the force at work to bring about trusts and combines in spite of all adverse legislation...
...Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, in a report to Congress, showed that the Treasury was empty and called for aid from the state banks. A loan of fifty million dollars was raised, which was of great aid to the government and served to bring the union bankers more closely together. Shortly afterward, when several increases of this loan had been made, a permanent system of national banks, under federal control, was established by the National Currency Act of 1863. The success of this measure was largely due to Mr. McCulloch, then Comptroller of the Currency. Secretary Chase at first disapproved...
...purpose of this Council is thoroughly to co-operate with the Faculty in raising the general intellectual standard at Harvard, as stated in the undergraduate petition to the Faculty dated April 29, 1908, to bring before the governing bodies of the University expression of undergraduate opinion on subjects pertaining to the University, and to co-operate with the Athletic Committee in eradicating any evils in the conduct of athletics. The attainment of this purpose is to be effected in part by direct jurisdiction over individual students, and in part by creating the general sentiment that it is a question...
...purpose of this Council is thoroughly to co-operate with the Faculty in raising the general intellectual standard at Harvard, as stated in the undergraduate petition to the Faculty dated April 29, 1908, to bring before the governing bodies of the University expression of undergraduate opinion on subjects pertaining to the University, and to co-operate with the Athletic Committee in eradicating any evils in the conduct of athletics. The attainment of this purpose is to be effected in part by direct jurisdiction over individual students, and in part by creating the general sentiment that it is a question...
...scenes of the play, laid in England at the present time, are at the London house and country seat of Herr Marshland, one of the leading characters. The romance which runs through the plot gives a happy setting to the farcical situations, which serve to bring out the eccentricities of the "Bibliothekar...