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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June, 1889, the first meeting of the Interparliamentary Union was held and meetings have been held every year since except during the War. The object of these unofficial meetings is "to unite in common action the members of all parliaments constituted in national groups to secure co-operation," etc., etc., in the usual vague and well-known terms...
...William Mitchell who two weeks ago denounced the "incompretency, criminal negligence and almost treasonable administration of the national defense," by high officers of the Army and the Navy (TIME, Sept. 14); and pointed his remarks by references to the Shenandoah disaster, the attempted flight to Hawaii, the MacMillan expedition, etc...
...Hugo Stinnes, crafty, potent, indurate,-a short while "All-Highest" of Germany-was planned a mausoleum to rival Les Invalides. Like the upstart Napoleon, he should lie in a marble crypt deep under a marble dome. In place of WAGRAM, JENA, AUSTERLITZ, PYRENEES, etc., there should be carved COAL, IRON, RAILROADS, NEWSPAPERS, etc. And all should be suffused by pale blue, pale yellow lights...
...pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first of the kind in history (excepting necromacy, etc.), were packed to the guards. Editor Horace Greeley and Publisher William Cullen Bryant displayed intense interest when the sisters went to New York City. The seeming phenomena were popularly regarded as "a new revelation." In 1867, a learned U. S. judge estimated there were 10 million spiritualists in the U. S. (2/5 the population...
...calendar year of 1924 showed some rather impressive changes over that for the year previous. Total assets at the close of last year amounted to $644,624,468, compared with $568,101,639 a year earlier. Most of this advance is contained in the item "real estate, equipment, etc.," which increased between the two statements from $180,789,490 to $227,120,617. The "cash" item was also up from $251,173,583 to $265,723,525, but as goodwill, trademarks, receivables, etc., are lumped under this head, no one but Mr. Ford and his confidants exactly understand what...