LYCOS RETRIEVER 
1937: United States
built 186 days ago
The 1937 halfcrown is the scarcest of the Free State halfcrowns and is an extremely difficult coin to find in Uncirculated (UNC) condition. Circulated examples in the lower grades are generally available, while examples better than Good Very Fine (GVF) and with no problems are less common, examples approaching Uncirculated like this one are quite scarce.
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Waddell & Reed, Inc., founded in 1937, is one of the oldest mutual fund complexes in the United States, having introduced the Waddell & Reed Advisors Group of Mutual Funds in 1940. Today, we distribute our investment products through the Waddell & Reed Advisors channel (our network of financial advisors), our Wholesale channel (encompassing broker/dealer, retirement, registered investment advisors as well as the activities of our Legend subsidiary), and our Institutional channel (including defined benefit plans, pension plans and endowments, as well as the activities of ACF and our subadvisory partnership with Mackenzie in Canada).
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After Pope's death in 1937, architects Daniel P. Higgins and Otto R. Eggers took over the project. The 19-foot bronze stature of Jefferson located in the memorial's interior was sculpted by Rudolph Evans. Panels featuring excerpts from Jefferson's writings ... adorn the interior.
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In sharp contrast, in 1937 Stalin held the entire grandiose mechanism of state terror under his unwavering and effective control. Without weakening or losing this control for even a minute, he displayed in his actions not the nervousness and alarm of a paranoiac, but, on the contrary, a surprising, almost superhuman self-control and the most refined calculation. "During the 1930s, he conducted the ‘Yezhov’ operation very precisely (from his point of view), since he prepared everything and seized his enemies unawares; they didn’t understand him," Nikolaevsky noted correctly. "Even many of his supporters didn’t understand him." [20]
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The United States Congress passed the Neutrality Act of 1937, which reaffirmed and enlarged the Neutrality Acts of August 1935 and February 1936. These laws were designed to keep the United States out of another global conflict. Under the 1937 act, whenever the president proclaimed a state of war outside of the Americas, U.S. firms would be prohibited from exporting arms and munitions to the belligerents for a period of up to two years. Certain materials, as designated by the president, could be sold on a cash basis before the goods could leave the U.S. and had to be transported on foreign ships. All other trade with the combatants was subject to the cash restriction, but might be carried on American ships. The act ... prohibited American citizens from traveling on belligerent ships and barred loans to nations at war.
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May - Dáil Éireann passes the Executive Authority (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937, which retrospectively abolishes the office of Governor-General of the Irish Free State. The abolition is retrospectively dated to December 1936.
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