Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total: five trillion korona. Peasants with a comfortable pre-War nest egg of 14,000 paper korona ($2,800) discovered that they possessed the equivalent of about $20 when the korona was at last stabilized by the able U. S. fiscal administrator of Hungary, Jeremiah Smith (TIME, July 5 et ante...
General Kondylis promised-as did General Pangalos when he seized power (TIME, July 6, 1925, et seq.)-that elections will shortly be held. At present Greece has no Parliament, and but slim chances that the new electoral promises will be kept better than the old ones which were not kept at all. At London, King George II, a first cousin once removed of George V of Britain, declared: "We have no personal desire for the throne of Greece, but if it is for the good of our country, then we are willing to return at any time...
White-necked, white-handed coal miners have ceased to be anomalous in Britain, for the coal strike, bringing leisure for ablution, has lasted through the summer (TIME, May 10 et seq.). With one million miners still on strike, with their four million dependents living on hand-to-mouth doles, with British production at last seriously curtailed by lack of coal, a conference was held last week between miners and owners. Britain waited expectant while President Evan Williams of the Mine Owners' Association conferred directly for the first time since June with President Herbert Smith of the Miners' Federation...
Dictator-President Theodore Pangalos has strutted as the autocrat of Greece for 13 months (TIME, July 6, 1925, et seq.). Last week, imprudent, he allowed himself the luxury of quitting Athens for a short vacation on the Island of Spetsae...
Shriven Banks. Nine Georgia Banks-at Cornelia, Demorest, Clarkesville, Ashburn, Hazelhurst, Whigham, Cochran, Sycamore and Lakewood-resumed business last week. The failure of the Bankers' Trust Co. of Atlanta (TIME, July 12 et seq.) involved their funds, forced them to cease operating a month ago. Now they have told over their troubles to state bank examiners, have been shriven, declared solvent...