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 also identified the “ unit banking ” system of small, single office banks as a basic weakness of U. S. banking.

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.

The writing for Locke in " Through the Looking Glass " was criticized, and one IGN writer said that " it seems irrational that he would go and Naomi in the back without explaining himself.

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.

Glass doors pose the risk of unintentional collision if a person believes the door to be open when it is closed, or is unaware there is a door at all.

In the United States in 1995, the Glass Ceiling Commission, a government-funded group, stated: " Over half of all Master ’ s degrees are now awarded to women, yet 95 % of senior-level managers, of the top Fortune 1000 industrial and 500 service companies are men.

Toledo is known as the Glass City because of its long history of innovation in all aspects of the glass industry: windows, bottles, windshields, construction materials, and glass art, which the Toledo Museum of Art has a large collection.

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Beginning February 3, 1961, an Air Force Looking Glass aircraft was in the air at all times 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

With the help of the patchwork girl Scraps, Bungle the Glass Cat ( another of Dr. Pipt's creations ), the Woozy, Dorothy, the Shaggy Man, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman, Ojo gathers all of these supplies but the left wing — the Tin Woodman will not allow any living thing to be killed, even to save another's life.

Within hours, Nazi militants launched a massive pogrom against Jewish communities throughout Germany, known to history as Kristallnacht (" Night of Broken Glass "), which lasted all night and into the next day.

As for the album's content, all three members of Glass Harp were active in songwriting the band's material.

The songs were written while Keaggy was still with Glass Harp Keaggy performed all the instruments on the album.

Also located on Highway 82 is B & G Heating and Cooling, a small business run by Bob Miley and other members of the Miley family which specializes in repairing and installing air conditioning units, Also, ( REPASCO ) a small business owned and operated by Linda Wiley specializing in restaurant equipment sales, parts, and repair service, The Post Office, Glass Unlimited, Volunteer Fire Department, City Hall, the salon ( Freida's Beauty Barn ), and the Bank of Alapaha are all located on Main Street.

Manufacturers such as Hartford City Glass, Sneath Glass Company, Hartford City Paper, Utility Paper, and Willman Lumber all located or began in Hartford City during the 1890s.

In 1895 the factory, town and all its holdings were acquired by Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, which later became PPG Industries.

Names like Jeannette Glass ; Fort Pitt Glass ; the Pittsburgh Lamp, Brass and Glass Company ; American-Saint Gobain, Westmoreland Glass ; and others all supplied the country with everything from plate glass windows, to bottles, to milk glass, and much more for many decades.

Lennon returned to the subject in the lyrics of three of his subsequent songs: in the 1968 Beatles song " Glass Onion " he sings " now here's another clue for you all — the walrus was Paul ", ; in the third verse of " Come Together " he sings the line " he bag production, he got walrus gumboot ", and in his 1970 solo song " God ", admits " I was the walrus, but now I'm John.

Examples include Bill Mazeroski, who is the only player in Major League Baseball history to end a seventh game of the World Series with a walk-off home run ( however, Mazeroski is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, due primarily to his status as one of the greatest defensive infielders of all time ); Paul Henderson, a Canadian ice hockey player who scored the deciding goal in the 1972 Summit Series ; Mike Jones, who tackled Kevin Dyson at the one-yard line on the final play of Super Bowl XXXIV ; and Jimmy Glass, an English football goalkeeper, who is remembered for scoring a goal in the last seconds of the final day of 1998-99 English Third Division that kept his club in The Football League.

Glass also wanted Federal Reserve supervision of all banks under a “ unified banking system .” Glass stated “ the curse of the banking system for this country is the dual system ” under which states could charter banks that were supervised by state officials outside the Federal Reserve System.

While Berle shared Glass ’ s hope that the new law ’ s deposit insurance provisions would force all banks into the Federal Reserve System, he correctly feared that future Congresses would remove this requirement.

The day following the council, Joseph, White Bird, and Looking Glass all accompanied General Howard to look at different areas.

Glass that forms when lightning hits sand, as in the film, is called fulgurite.

Corning Glass Works appointed Arthur Houghton, Jr. as President in 1933, and under his leadership Steuben changed artistic direction toward more modern forms.

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.