Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul case were not questions of rates, rebates, wages, schedules, porter's uniforms or any other question about the actual operation of a railroad. The questions were: 1) The St. Paul having crashed, who was to blame? 2) In putting the St. Paul together again, how should it be done...
...Dawes Plan and offer the only possible way that Germany can transfer credits so huge that their movement, if made in gold, would disrupt international exchange. The frauds detected, last week, amounted to giving "short measure" to the reputed extent of $12,000,000. To understand how this was done, recall the normal method of paying reparations in kind...
...very ladylike Carmen compared to her successors. Then came Calvé, whose realistic interpretation won her the name of being the first singing actress. Farrar made her Carmen a hoyden as incalculable as the wind, kept it popular in Manhattan to the end of her regime. Mary Garden has done similar service in Chicago. Last week for the first time, the Metropolitan presented the Carmen of Maria Jeritza...
...movie competition, changing conditions in the whole amusement business forced changes. Colored shows, straight dramatic shows, strange hybrids he added to his wheel. Yet, owing to enmity of the Mutual, the gamble grew for each. Sam Scribner decided to stop trying to outclass the field and absorb it. This done, he becomes chairman of the United Burlesque board, will now devote much of his time to golf. President of the new combine will be able "Izzie" Herk, long a leader in the business, since 1922 head of the opposing Mutual Circuit...
After this there was a clamor about the most fitting burial place for so great an author. It was decided that the ashes of the man who had written, in the last paragraph of one of his greatest novels, "'Justice was done' . . . and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. . . ." should be taken to Westminster Abbey, burial place of famed Englishmen, preserved in a vault. His heart, removed from his body before cremation, was buried in the earth at Dorchester...