Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sympathetic friends of Princess Mary deem that she is indeed "suffering a great deal," for, until the Duke of York married and begot "Baby Betty" (TIME, May 3, 1926), Princess Mary was the feminine best bet of British camera men and they always clicked her at her best...
This Thing Called Love. The author, Edwin Burke, believes that love "is the monkey wrench which life has thrown into the machinery of marriage." Perhaps, in the beginning, he wanted to deal with the thing seriously. But, with his gate in mind, he shambles into farce, ends with a drunken and melodramatic pistol shot...
...seven great centres of finance interchanged telephone calls, cable messages. In Manhattan, the house of Lee, Higginson & Co. knew what associated houses were doing in London, in Berlin, in Sweden, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium. At a given moment, last week, the seven groups acted together, announced a Swedish financing deal...
...equally easy to obtain. Matchmaker Kreuger had to dicker. To win the French state monopoly, he bought $50,000,000 French government bonds. He loaned Greece $5,000,000 for the monopoly. Ecuador received $2,000,000 and a yearly payment. A similar dicker pleased Esthonia. And such a deal was responsible for the $36,000,000 Hungarian bonds for which U. S. and foreign investors began, last week, to make indirect payment...
...last week. That enticed vast new sums for loaning and retarded trading. Less trading caused less demand for the horde of money. So the call rate dropped the next day to 8%, to 7 1/2%. That in turn gave traders a chance to make money on stock deals. They scrambled. When the day was over they had swapped more than 4,700,000 shares. Motors and oils were popular. Someone bought $6,000,000 of General Motors stock in a single deal. There were other large deals...