Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Says von Falkenberg: "Improving each week. In fact there has been less use of that 'tycoon,' for I, like the wondrous monk of Siberia got weary and weary and wearier...
...Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals: "Not . . . revolutionary. . . . Prohibitionists have never believed it is desirable to set up a national police force . . . for the sole purpose of enforcement. . . . Unfortunate word 'modification' . . . interpretation ... to imply that state laws may be enacted which in fact legalize alcoholic content in beverages prohibited by the Federal Constitution, we believe an entirely mistaken...
Unmentioned in the official report was the fact that onetime Court Chamberlain General Angelescu, powerful Bratianu appointee, much more potent than "fantastic" Col. Stojka, was also arrested, imprisoned with Fantastic Stojka in the Jilavele military prison...
Extent of the European market for U. S. cars is suggested by the fact that of a world registration of 31,778,203 motor cars, 24,493,124 are in U. S. territory. There is already approximately one U. S. motor car for every U. S. family. Comparatively speaking, the world market is a pedestrian paradise. Furthermore, out of a 1928 world production of 5.198,167 cars, the U. S. produced 4.358,748, or almost 85%. Thus the rest of the world has the capacity to absorb many more cars and the U. S. has the capacity to make them...
...least three months. Six depositors said their deposits had been accepted the day before the bank closed. Laymen who think that banks are banks all alike, wondered how the State Banking Department had permitted Clarke Bros, to get into such a dreadful condition. Explanation lay in the fact that Clarke Bros., unsupervised, belonged to that class of banking institutions known as "private bankers" which do not have to be supervised as long as they do not describe themselves as "banks," do not accept deposits that at any time run under $500,? do not transmit money or negotiate notes...