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...will be reformed "to guarantee a preponderance of national interests in its management." This is one of those glowing generalities which can be interpreted to suit the individual taste. But the great question is how. Economists have long agreed that the Bank of France should be able to exert a stabilizing influence in national life, and should particularly have power to exert its influence through effective use of re-discount and open-market policies...
...case, went to that official, asked about its progress. They were told that the Walleys had walked into Federal Court fortnight before, pleaded guilty, been dismissed on payment of $25 fines. Investigation by furious game protectors disclosed that the Walleys were members of an old Mississippi family who exert considerable influence in their State's politics. Their late father, a Methodist preacher, was a onetime State Senator, regarded by many wildlife enthusiasts as the source of Racketeer Bogle's political protection. Rev. Columbus Walley was also an old friend of Senator Pat Harrison...
...Paul's organ for 35 years, gave Clara Bryant her first music lessons, retired in 1915. Last week when she was nearing her 80th birthday, she was back again, stanchly playing Just As I Am Without One Plea. This time, though, she did not have to exert herself at all because there was a new organ in St. Paul's, a Hammond Electric, inscribed: "To the Glory of God and as a tribute and memorial to Sara Angeline Waffle, organist of this parish for the first 35 years of its life. This organ is presented to St. Paul...
...records in Milwaukee, Portland, Me., Dayton, Richmond, Cincinnati, Boston and Baltimore. Preparations for Shirley Temple's birthday were thus enhanced by the certainty that neither increasing age nor the loss of her teeth has yet hurt her prestige and that, in her eighth year, she was likely to exert an even greater influence upon the entertainment business and its patrons than she did in her fifth, sixth and seventh...
...desultory organizations-36,000 of them-have never, to my certain knowledge, influenced so much as the election of a dog catcher. Thirty-six thousand clubs, leagues and associations whose chief objective is wild life conservation. . . . And yet, with all this potential voting strength, the wild life conservationists altogether exert less political influence on our governments, both State and national, than the Barrel-Rollers' Union in Pumpkin Center. . . . The problem resolves itself therefore into one of federation of the group interests to bring to bear their voting strength upon the men who are willing to serve when the demand...