Word: ending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this seem that some brokers refused to sell out their customers even when technically they might have. But the awful expected began to happen when one brokerage house, John J. Bell & Co., was suspended. What failures loomed, none could say. Would the nightmare, to many tragically cruel, never end? As shades of Tuesday evening fell, it seemed again that the worst was past. A belated ticker recorded gains in significant stocks. New York Central was three points above Monday's close. Hysteria, it was hoped, had met its master in the Banking Power of the U. S., which appeared...
Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor is 81. He has seen, written, talked and done much. "Father of the House of Commons," he has been a Member of Parliament uninterruptedly since 1880, cinema censor of Great Britain, reporter, editor, publisher, author. Last week he announced the end of one of his many ventures. Said he, writing in T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly. "This is the last number which will appear. I have struggled for a long time against ill-health and fatigue, but I find my health unequal to the demands...
...shortly after noon. Light through the girders and from many searchlights fall on a comparatively diminutive fabric of duralumin lying at one end of the dock. The duralumin section is 50 ft. long, 10 ft. high, and just one arc of the 133-ft. diameter ring which is to be the "keel" of the airship. A rope on standards marks off the round of the ring-to-be. Within the circumference are 400 dignitaries, official guests, each with a 3-in. disk of duraluminum, memento of the "ZRS-4 Ring-Laying...
...Racine, Wis.. Edward and Mary Sieger commemorated their golden wedding anniversary by being remarried. At the end of the ceremony Mrs. Sieger fell dead...
Drums and cymbals clash a silence. A shrill tweet from the bandmaster and out blares the pomp of "Hail to the Chief." In through the giant curved rolling door at the end of the building marches Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Navy's bureau of aeronautics. With him are President Litchfield, Designer Arnstein, Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker, who Drobably will head the Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. (see col. 3). They mount a platform above the arc of the master ring. President Litchfield explains the ceremonies to spectators and microphones. Dr. Arnstein hands Rear-Admiral Moffett...