Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consideration of existing interrelationships of the various currencies and monetary standards of the Empire and of the desirability and feasibility of taking steps to restore and stabilize the general price level and to establish exchange...
...Adopted the conference report on the $2,100,000,000 Relief bill; sent it to the President for a veto (see below). ¶ Debated a bill to establish a system of home loan banks, before digressing to adopt (53-to-18) an amendment proposed by Idaho's Borah to inflate currency by $1,000,000,000 by issuance of National Bank notes on Federal bonds. ¶ Passed a House bill appropriating $100,000 to send the Bonus Expeditionary Force home (see p. 11). ¶ Adopted the Couzens resolution authorizing a committee of five Senators to investigate...
Prime Minister Kosovo broaches a plan. Why not bring Dushan's U. S. daughter to Illyria, establish the royal succession on her, spike Marko's revolutionary guns by marrying her off to him? This innocent suggestion precipitates a cloudburst of consequences. Helen Stevens the innocent U. S. princess, John Brent a U. S. oil man, the weazely Sloat, knightly bandits, politicians, Tsernagorean guards are soon embroiled in a terrific free-for-all from which Helen finally emerges in John Brent's arms asking for an ice-cream soda and a passage home...
...things she behaves with dignity and decorum. Nevertheless Oxford, like any Alma Mater, needs the money of her sons. Last week if she was not actually waving her pennant, she was trying a tentative flourish. From Oxford's Chancellor, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, came a proposal to establish that most useful money-raising device, an Alumni Association. It is to be dignified with the name "Oxford Society." Promoted lately at a gathering of "representative" Oxford men, it gained notably the support of Old Oxonian Edward of Wales. Lord Grey addressed his appeal to all Oxford men and Oxford women...
Empire Currency? In Ottawa last week Canadian Senator Alexander Duncan McRae proposed that the Imperial Conference establish an "Imperial Bank" backed by the gold reserves of the whole Empire (which he estimated at $900,000,-ooo) and issue an "Imperial Currency...