Word: cf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crop. They save a little money to buy beef and find the price has abruptly jumped beyond them. Sausage, presented by a rich American, they lose. Hand in hand at the end they are still happy. "Isn't Life Wonderful!" cry they. Neil Hamilton and Carol Dempster (cf. America) have the parts. So telling are their portraits that the director must be further commended. As postscript to this tribute must be added the opinion that the film will not be popular. So taken are the masses with tinsel imitations that simple sincerity must necessarily be tasteless...
Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm : The morose mien cf country bankers...
...continual troubles in the coal industry during the past few years have led many real estate owners to experiment with fuel oil instead. The recent clash of the coal operators and miners, along with the current cheapness cf crude oil following over-productioin last Spring, has given considerable momentum to the tendency to install oil-burning equipment in office buildings in New York and other large cities. A manufacturer of oil-burning appliances has reported an increase in his sales...
Premier Poincare, standing in the Place des Etats-Unis in front of the monument to U. S. Volunteers which he had unveiled, said: " Thank God the time is past when we have need cf these volunteers in the Armies of the Republic, who fought and died with us, and who helped in the Lafayette Esquadrille to sweep from the skies the Gothas and Taubes. But how much we need volunteers in every country to fight with tongue and pen to combat the German propaganda which distorts our thoughts and actions and travesties our whole intention...
...evidence that finance is international in scope were needed, it would be strikingly provided by the failures cf the Stock Exchange firms of Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne and Zimmerman & Forshay. Both were old and for years substantial concerns, specializing in German securities exchange, and engaged in a banking rather than a stock commission business. The causes for these failures are therefore quite different from those behind the recently announced insolvencies of Curb, Consolidated and nonmember houses, and can directly or indirectly be traced principally to the sensational fall in the German mark...