Word: armageddon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio, at Dayton and Toledo, Ku Klux Klansmen fired tall crosses in the night: "In memory of William Jennings Bryan, the greatest Klansmen of our time, this cross is burned; he stood at Armageddon and battled for the Lord...
...London Stock Exchange, Hungarian and Austrian crowns* were quoted at par for the first time since the clatter of Armageddon first disturbed the world. In Manhattan, Dr. Paul Hollos, Budapest banker, spoke at New York University, said that demands for U. S. capital would continue for a decade. He painted a rosy view of Hungary's financial reconstruction, concluded by saying that bank deposits had increased tenfold during the past year as a sign of domestic and foreign confidence in the country...
...clumsy? Why such favoritism?" For the Chancellor of the Exchequer is supposed to be a sort of magician, conjuring painless taxation to meet the Nation's expenses. For him budget-time is the great trial of the year. So Mr. Churchill arrived at the annual Armageddon...
...General Ludendorff informs the reader that Germany never was defeated; which contention, even if it be preposterous, at least gives a point of view that is widely held in Germany. Profs. Carlton J. H. Hayes of Columbia and Charles Seymour of Yale give their academic sidelights on Armageddon; and the War subject is rounded off by naval expositions from Admirals von Tirpitz, von Scheer, Jellicoe and Sims -two German, one 'British and one American...
...period is dwelt upon with greater emphasis. And the War period, viewed from the standpoint of internal events, is one of real value; for most people, even historians, seem to be either ignorant of or at least hazy with regard to what took place during that era of mighty Armageddon. Finally, the histories end with a fair account of post-War events, which, without questioning their accuracy or usefulness, are inevitably open to controversy. The supplementary matter is composed of essays on economics, the people, finance, etc., besides which each volume contains a miscellaneous section in which much useful...