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...diffident and bespectacled Secretary of State for Colonies, young Malcolm MacDonald, both he and his father Ramsay MacDonald having now won seats in by-elections after losing out in the general election. MacDonald Senior escorted MacDonald Junior in to take the oath and sign the roll last week amid bedlam from Labor's benches...
Yesterday's sleet storm seemed to put increased vigor into Lowell House's monthly bell-bedlam. Caring neither for sleet nor student, Arthur T. Merrit, Eliot House music tutor, climbed to his tower station accompanied by several assistants. Two of the merrymakers stood under the 14-ton bass bell and another at the chains and footpedal operating the remaining 16 bells...
...boom in the middle 1920?3 Miami frontage was worth more than any other land on the face of the globe. Justification of the prices at which this land was changing hands daily would have required fully-rented buildings 200 stories high. Nearby in the midst of this financial bedlam blossomed an incredible development?Coral Gables, a city of planned perfection that was to be no less than a "paradise on earth." Last week in Washington in its investigation of protective committees, the Securities & Exchange Commission wrote a few new chapters of paradisiacal history...
Three hours later Berlin was bedlam. Boulevards were pack-jammed with people shouting and sobbing. Several correspondents, defeated by the job of trying to describe a nation mad with joy, cabled that Germany's transports of exultation were "INDESCRIBABLE...
Instanter a dull market became a buying bedlam. Stocks soared, shorts were squeezed, new crowds appeared in brokers' boardrooms. Government bonds cracked, endangering the current $2,400,000,000 refunding operations. Foreign exchange markets in London, Paris and Manhattan were suddenly overturned as the dollar plummeted. Pound sterling, which had been sinking alarmingly for days, shot up 5½? to $4.78 in a few moments. The U. S. Stabilization Fund desperately dumped hundreds of millions of francs...