This theory, defended by Senator Glass ’ s long time advisor Henry Parker Willis, had served as a foundation for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and earlier US banking law.

Glass and Willis argued the failure of banks to follow, and of the Federal Reserve to enforce, this theory had resulted in the “ excesses ” that inevitably led to the Great Depression.

Glass and Willis viewed such affiliates as artificial devices to evade limits on bank activities.

Glass and Willis criticized all forms of “ illiquid loans ” including bank real estate lending.

In 1932 Hoover had delayed Congressional action on the Glass bill by requesting further hearings and ( according to Willis ) by working to delay Senate consideration of revised versions of the Glass bill introduced after those hearings.

Jason Perry spent time writing, recording, and touring with Matt Willis, formerly of Busted, and has now become a successful producer, working with the likes of The Blackout, Kids in Glass Houses, and McFly.

He is also mentioned in the song " Jeshurun ", on Priest's album Behind the Stained Glass.

One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.

He began playing the cello, spending a summer in France studying music under the acclaimed Nadia Boulanger, who also taught Morris ' future collaborator Philip Glass.

Glass also finds application in optoelectronics e. g., for light-transmitting optical fibers.

Glass can also be cut with a diamond saw, or copper wheels embedded with abrasives, and polished to give gleaming facets ; the technique used in creating Waterford crystal.

The building influenced the creation of hundreds of modernist glass houses, most notably the Glass House by Philip Johnson, located near New York City and also now owned by the National Trust.

In the 1960s the work of the avant-garde minimalist composers La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley also achieved prominence in the New York art world.

( Philip Glass also makes use of atonality, though his style is generally described as minimalist, usually thought of as another 20th century development.

Modernist styles of music have also appealed to composers writing for the modern grand piano, including John Cage and Philip Glass.

In an effort to augment the Looking Glass mission, a 1973 initiative resulted in the establishment of the National Emergency Airborne Command Post ( NEACP ), also known as " knee cap ," resulting in the procurement of four Boeing E-4 aircraft derived from the Boeing 747.

Using purple as Mr. Glass ' color to David Dunn's green was also Jackson's idea.

The walrus is also mentioned in the songs " I Am the Walrus ", " Glass Onion " and " Come Together " by The Beatles.

Philip Glass returns as the film's composer, and Jon Kane as the Visual Designer ( having also worked on Naqoyqatsi with Reggio in 2002 ).

Glass blocks may also be used.

* The American Maid ( 1909 ), also known as The Glass Blowers.

The Pier also has an IMAX theater, and the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, many of which were salvaged from Chicago mansions.

* Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game ( 1943 ), also known as " Magister Ludi " ( Master of the Game )

* British — Graham, Matthew, and Ashley Pharaoh: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 TV series ; main character, Alex Drake, is haunted by Pierrot like that in David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes ); Mahoney, Brian: Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders ( 1970 film written and performed by David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp, adapted from their stage-play of the same title and produced by Scottish Television also # Songs, albums, and rock musicals | Songs, albums, and rock musicals below ).

Besides the gemstone varieties that show a play of color, there are other kinds of common opal such as the milk opal, milky bluish to greenish ( which can sometimes be of gemstone quality ); resin opal, which is honey-yellow with a resinous luster ; wood opal, which is caused by the replacement of the organic material in wood with opal ; menilite, which is brown or grey ; hyalite, a colorless glass-clear opal sometimes called Muller's Glass ; geyserite, also called siliceous sinter, deposited around hot springs or geysers ; and diatomite or diatomaceous earth, the accumulations of diatom shells or tests.

The modern American composer Phillip Glass also found the story fascinating, and composed an opera, The Photographer, with a libretto based in part on court transcripts from the case.

The ka-tet also captures the pink-colored Wizard's Glass, a mystical, malevolent orb or crystal ball from the town witch, Rhea of the Cöos.

Glass is also brittle ; it does not flex much before breaking.

The American composer Philip Glass has also written a symphonic cantata named Itaipu, in honour of the structure.

Glass and plastic cuvettes are also common, although glass and most plastics absorb in the UV, which limits their usefulness to visible wavelengths.

Kristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, or Reichskristallnacht,, and, was a pogrom or series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9 – 10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary and civilians.

In architecture, two specific buildings are identified as Expressionist: Bruno Taut's Glass Pavilion of the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition ( 1914 ), and Erich Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany completed in 1921.

Afterwards, Lane dialed a Palo Alto number for Jukt Micronics provided by Glass and eventually had a phone conversation with a man who identified himself as George Sims, a Jukt executive.

The Federal Glass Ceiling Commission of the United States Department of Labor identified two major societal barriers that cause and reinforce a glass ceiling.

The Stained Glass Windows have been identified as prepared by Meyer Co. of Munich, Georgia and some by the Zettler Co. of New York were installed in 1921.

The best known is the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition, held each year, where design students from all over the world can participate by designing their own “ inspired ” martini cocktail glass.

A glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly, “ The Sun ” at the “ Gardens of Glass ” exhibition in Kew Gardens, London.

The concept of a Glass House set in a landscape with views as its real “ walls ” had been developed by many authors in the German Glasarchitektur drawings of the 1920s, and already sketched in initial form by Johnson's mentor Mies.

The 4th Post Attack Command & Control Squadron at Ellsworth AFB, SD maintained several EC-135 “ Looking Glass ” Aircraft on an alert at MAFB for coverage of the missile squadrons as a secondary ( Airborne ) Launch Control Center.

The factory came to be known as “ the Glass House ”.

By the time the affiliation restrictions in the Glass – Steagall Act were repealed through the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, many commentators argued Glass-Steagall was already “ dead .” Most notably, Citibank ’ s 1998 affiliation with Salomon Smith Barney, one of the largest US securities firms, was permitted under the Federal Reserve Board ’ s then existing interpretation of the Glass-Steagall Act.

The Glass – Steagall Act of 1932 authorized Federal Reserve Banks to ( 1 ) lend to five or more Federal Reserve System member banks on a group basis or to any individual member bank with capital stock of $ 5 million or less against any satisfactory collateral, not only “ eligible paper ,” and ( 2 ) issue Federal Reserve Bank Notes ( i. e., paper currency ) backed by US government securities when a shortage of “ eligible paper ” held by Federal Reserve banks would have required such currency to be backed by gold.

The Federal Reserve Board explained that the special lending to Federal Reserve member banks permitted by the 1932 Glass – Steagall Act would only be permitted in “ unusual and temporary circumstances .”

Glass had been the House sponsor of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 ( the Glass-Owen Act ) and considered himself “ the father of the Federal Reserve System .” The various versions of his Glass bill consistently sought to ( 1 ) expand branch banking and bring more banks and activities under Federal Reserve supervision and ( 2 ) separate ( or regulate the mix of ) commercial and investment banking.

The Glass bills also sought to avoid deposit insurance by providing for a federal authority to purchase assets of a closed bank based on what it called “ an approximately correct valuation of its assets ” in order to make immediate payments to depositors to the extent of the bank ’ s “ bona fide assets .”

The Bill's language indicated that it was intended as a “ tentative measure to serve as a guide ” for a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency ( the Glass Subcommittee ) chaired by Glass that was authorized to investigate the operations of the National and Federal Reserve banking systems.

Senator Glass supported a commercial banking theory ( associated with the real bills doctrine ) that commercial banks should limit their lending to short term “ self liquidating ” loans to finance the production and sale of goods in “ commercial ” transactions.

Glass condemned banks for lending to stock market “ speculators ” and for underwriting “ risky ” or “ utterly worthless ” securities, particularly foreign securities, that were sold to unsophisticated bank depositors and small “ correspondent banks .”

Glass opposed direct bank involvement in these activities and indirect involvement through “ securities affiliates .” Such affiliates were typically owned by the same shareholders as the bank, with the affiliate ’ s shares held in a “ voting trust ” or other device that ensured bank management controlled the affiliate.