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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forthwith publicized as "England's richest heiress." The $100,000,000 represented figurative or literal mountains of tea, rubber, coal, oil, banks, newspapers, steamships, flour mills, jute mills or coin of His Britannic Majesty's realm derived therefrom. This polygonal fortune had come to her from her father, old Sir David Yule, who had built it up from four mills which devolved upon him from his father-in-law, Andrew Yule, who first made Indian jute world-famed. It was the War's demand for sandbags which caused jute prices to soar and the Yule wealth...
...been but two factors in the German match market. One was Swedish Match, the other the government-protected cartel* of independent manufacturers. Recently a new, disturbing agent had appeared. Matches from the vast timberlands of Russia were underselling the western manufactured product. It appeared evident that Matchmaker Kreuger had come to establish a 100% monopoly in Germany as he had done in other countries. Indignant, the patriotic German press published premature announcements of the plan. It was stated that Swedish Match Co. would buy the monopoly by offering the government a loan of 600,000,000 marks (about...
...nation." Abstractly he mentioned his Labor party's "revolution of the ballot box," then hurried on to footing less precarious. Fearlessly he generalized about war, common enemy of all laborers in or out of politics. "Labor," he said, "bears the burdens, the pains, the sacrifices of war. I come . . . as a missionary of peace." U. S. Railroad Unions, with 400,000 members, have long been eyed wistfully by the A. F. of L. At the convention a representative of one of the rail unions said: "I don't know why our brotherhood should not be in this...
...There was in the village I come from an old man who was a very devout Catholic. The nearest chapel was six miles from the village, and in order to worship he had to hire a trap-it was before the days of motor cars. It cost him six shillings, and being a Scotsman, he was a thrifty man. His religion compelled him to spend six shillings a week to drive from Lossiemouth to Elgin. But his desire to get good value for his money compelled him to commit the sin of drunkenness on Saturday, in order that he might...
...athletics and an over estimation of the difficulty of the Exeter entrance requirements which are supposed to provide the necessary check on athletes. If such be the case, it may be expected that the new course will prove its faults in actual operation and that the Exeter authorities will come to a realization that some relation between studies and athletics must be maintained if an undue emphasis is not to be placed on the latter...