Word: transferability
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...agency nor its chair man to which he objected, Senator Byrd explained. For them he had nothing but praise. But the Brookings Institution had calculated that the Government could save $30,000,000 per year by consolidating its credit agencies. One item in the Institution's program was transfer of RFC's as sets to some other agency as soon as its lending activities had ceased. Since reorganization should begin to take effect by July 1938, Senator Byrd proposed an amendment extending RFC only to that date...
...President then invited his Republican predecessor's Secretary of the Treasury to call on him to discuss details of the transfer. Mr. Mellon did so, leaving behind a nine-point program for running the gallery, most emphatic of which was that "no acquisitions shall be made . . . except objects of a similar high standard of quality to the present collection...
...next section provides that "all those who appeared in the Red Book of the Class in question, and transfer students, shall be eligible to vote." No provision regarding voting qualifications now exists, and much confusion always arises during election as to who shall be counted...
...Nanking Government of the venerable Chinese people commenced a bribery experiment noble in motive. That stanch Methodist, Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, turned his other cheek toward Mongol and Manchukuoan forces which have been invading Suiyuan, the strategic Chinese province north of the Great Wall. To those invaders who would transfer their allegiance to China, he publicly offered the following bribes, described with cultivated euphemism as "rewards...
...grease. Not a humorist in an ironic or satirical sense of the term, Wodehouse gets away with comic murder by a species of inspired silliness that is funny only because it is so uninhibited and because it goes on so tirelessly. In Laughing Gas, his plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star and the amiable, gorilla-faced Earl, with the result that the Earl romps around, paying off childhood scores, until he becomes known as the fiend of Hollywood, while the golden-haired child star takes to whiskey and soda and pays calls on cinema queens...