Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Greatest anarch of his time was Jacob ("Jake") Volk, wrecker of Delmonico's, Vanderbilt homes, Chemical National Bank, et al., whose highest ambition, to wreck the Woolworth Building, remained unfulfilled at his death last month (TIME, March...
Pleasantly but insistently last week Chairman Owen D. Young of the second Dawes Committee at Paris (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.) circulated a memorandum of his own drafting among the delegates of the Great Powers who have met to decide how much Germany must finally pay in reparations...
Likewise the President has put in a new system of buzzers: one short sharp ring brings Secretary George Akerson. Other signals summon lesser secretaries, stenographers, doormen et...
...foremost financiers of the Great Powers that they resemble a gang of shady horse-traders is possessed by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the famed "Iron Man" who is President of Germany's Reichsbank. Today he represents the Fatherland on the Second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.) which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan and decide how much Germany must eventually pay in reparations. Last week the "Iron Man" found himself deadlocked with the delegates of the Great Powers, who include John Pierpont Morgan. Result: Dr. Schacht, who fears not even Wall Street, expressed himself...
...take it or leave it offer−and a surprisingly generous one−was made to Germany by the Allies last week, according to the press bureau of the German delegation to the second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Jan 14 et seq.). Whereas under the Dawes Plan the Reich is scheduled to pay in reparations $595,000,000 yearly, the Germans said they had been offered...