Culture. Dictionary Home AnthroBase Home Bookmark, cite or print this page. The term culture traces its roots back to German Romanticism and Herder 's idea of the Volksgeist (the spirit of a people), which was adapted for anthropological use by Adolf Bastian.ylor's definition is still widely cited: Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society..
The Glass-Steagall Act, also known as the Banking Act of 1933 (48 Stat. 162), was passed by Congress in 1933 and prohibits commercial banks from engaging in the investment business. It was enacted as an emergency response to the failure of nearly 5,000 banks during the Great Depression.
After the Panic of 1907, Congress began to seek a preventative solution so that a banking panic would never happen again. In order to accomplish this, they passed the Aldrich-Vreeland Act in 1908. The act allowed for the emergency production of currency in a crisis and created the National Monetary Commission.his is a picture of the Senate Banking Committee in session during the debate about the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. At the time, Robert L. Owen, pictured on the right, was head of the committee.