Word: 29th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person who once paid $50,000 for a hundred shares of Auburn Motors would have been lucky to get $15,000 for his stock on October 29th. Goldman-Sachs' famed Blue Ridge investment trust which was to share in the entire sweep of U. S. prosperity was sold at $3 per share. Dozens of stocks of huge companies sold for less than half of what somebody had once said they were worth. So nonsensical did all this seem that some brokers refused to sell out their customers even when technically they might have. But the awful expected began...
Finding that U. S. citizens were spending millions on foreign visas - while little money was accruing from foreign tourists in the U. S. - the State Department started negotiations in 1925 to abolish or reduce the $10 charge. France last week was the 29th nation to comply...
...eloquent advocate of peace. His own self-sacrifice, with his high patriotism, pointed his appeal for our national participation in the solution of world problems. On the following morning, he was too ill to take his turn at the Chapel. He was to have preached here again on the 29th of May, 1929, so that the service just mentioned was the last at which his voice was heard...
Chicago was quieter last week than it had been for a month. The 2,523 entrants in the 29th annual tournament of the American Bowling Congress finished knocking down pins and carried away prize money amounting to more than $100,000. Outstanding was Adolph Unke of Milwaukee, who won the singles with a total of 728*, and took second place in the all events with 1,952. Otto Stein Jr., of St. Louis won the all events with 1,974. W. Kleca and P. Butler of Chicago were the doubles winners with 1,353 and the Hub Recreation team...
...tribe in New Zealand; from Manhattan came Bishop John J. Dunn, who brought greetings, regrets from Patrick Cardinal Hayes; from many another spot came many another layman & divine. As they came to Chicago in 1926 and will go to Carthage, North Africa, in 1930, so they flocked to the 29th Eucharistic Congress in Australia...