Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to prophesy election results in Philadelphia. The effect of Philadelphia's bootleg investigation had to be considered (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). In that citadel of Vare Republicanism the Volstead act carried all its ghostly, malevolent outriders. Flagrant police corruption had been exposed. Suspects in higher positions has ceased to wink, begun to blink. The Vare regime was receiving unwelcome, unpleasant publicity...
...fifth successive week, brokers' loans, last week, reached a new high, mounted to $4,907,164,000. A year ago, they stood at $3,371,705,000. Traditionally, rises in the total of brokers' loans are viewed with alarm (TIME, July 23, et seq.). Reassuring, therefore, were the figures quoted by able Statistician Charles H. Platt (Prince & Whitely, Manhattan investment house), in the bullish Wall Street Journal. Wrote Statistician Platt...
...pamphlets total 114 pages. They release officially, for the first time, that notorious series of secret Anglo-French communications feverishly rumored to constitute an "agreement," a "pact" or even an "entente" between France and Britain, contrary to the interests of the U. S. and Italy (TIME, Aug. 13 et...
Simultaneously Manhattan's Communist monthly, New Masses, printed a car toon flaying both H. R. H. and his Afric good-will tour (TIME, Sept. 17 et...
...atrocities would more than justify U. S. intervention. They are ascribed by the McCoy report to a "gang led by Pedro Altamirano, trusted lieutenant of Sandino." The latter is of course General Augusto Calderon Sandino, who has raised the standard of revolt against U. S. occupation (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and is still successfully defying capture by U. S. marines. Since Sandino depends wholly upon his fellow-countrymen for contributions to support his army, the news that he is cutting off the hands that feed him is peculiarly challenging to alert belief...