Word: fall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Receiving the reports, Commissioner Doran announced: "The Bureau of Prohibition will proceed to act upon applications ... for permits to manufacture whiskey for medicinal use. . . . The amount of actual whiskey on hand July 1, 1929 is 9,549,017 gallons. If further manufacture is now permitted, it will be late fall or nearly Jan. 1, 1930 before actual production commences. . . . Extensive examinations have been made of the bonded whiskey stocks and I can state that they are in sound condition. Of the 300,000 barrels in bonded storage not in excess of 1,000 barrels are of questionable quality. . . . The withdrawal...
...With fire and slash M. Franklin-Bouillion sought to destroy by an emotional onslaught the Government's chief logical reason why France must ratify her debt agreement not later than Aug. 1 next. On that date, as M. Poin-caré had incessantly reminded the Chamber, there would fall due the debt of $400,000,000 owed by France for War stocks purchased from the U. S. after the Armistice. The only way to escape paying this huge sum now and in cash would be to ratify the general debt settlement, one clause of which virtually grants France...
...Fiedler Sr. retired, took his family to Europe. Since he did not wish Arthur to follow music, the boy ran errands for a Berlin publisher. After five weeks, his head full of harmonics, he rebelled. Fiedler Sr., repentant, taught him the violin from that June into the following Fall. Then, out of 53 competitors he was accepted for one of three vacancies at the Berlin Royal Academy of Music. When War came he sailed for Boston, where the late Conductor Karl Muck hired him for the Boston Symphony. When the U. S. went to war, he went to camp...
...waitresses, Chicago socialites?all fashion-conscious women in the U. S. were the invisible, ultimate spectators of a spectacle last week in Manhattan/s Astor Hotel. Despite the heat, a parade of mannequins marched all evening, dressed and redressed for next autumn. It was a march stolen on Paris. The fall fashion show of the Garment Retailers of America forecast the following features and trends...
...Davis looked out of his Brussels hotel window to find the streets flowing with the quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper marks planted in their place. In 1918, with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young Plan. Germany's stiff-collared Hjalmar Schacht declared with...