Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protested this disparity of Prohibition. Last week city men envied country men when Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran issued to his agents this edict: "The National Prohibition act authorizes . . . unrestricted manufacture of non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice in the home. . . . Conditions: . . . 1) it shall be non-intoxicating in fact; 2) it shall be exclusively for home use . . . 3) it shall not be sold or delivered except with a vinegar permit. . . . Nor will you interfere with such manufacture and use in the home...
...necessity for the issue is explained by the fact that some three years ago control of the New York subsidiary was seized by a group with Communistic leanings. They declined to accept arbitration and forced a strike which lasted for nearly six months, cost the union treasury some $3,500,000 in cash reserve, the workers some $30,000,000 in wages. The strike was a virtual failure. So the old officials stepped back in and reorganized...
...England, was inaugurated, on the advice of the Cunliff Currency Commission that such a reserve was "desirable" (i. e. indispensable in the Commission's opinion) if the gold parity of the pound was to be maintained. The seriousness of the situation, last week, may be judged from the fact that for the first time since the Cunliff Minimum was laid down, the Old Lady's gold-in-pocket fell below the "desirable" limit...
Faced with this definite fact, the Linz police admitted that in purchasing actual war munitions Prince Ernst did seem to have broken the law. They sent a polite note to Prince Ernst, telling him of the Socialists' accusations, warning him that it would be necessary to search Schloss Waxenberg for arms. Followed four days, in which, while the police waited patiently, Prince Ernst's Heimwehr worked like ants, carrying boxes and crates out of the castle, into the woods. Only then did the Linz police, urged on by excited Socialists, climb and sweat up the hill...
...moving the fall crop. Stock Market excesses, high call money rates. For Governor Young to have been explicit would have been untraditional. Because it is impossible to make a complete statement taking into consideration every factor discussed, the Federal Reserve Board makes no explanations, merely presents the simple fact of its decisions...