Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cotton trade is wondering if a somewhat similar fate may not be in store for our cotton planters. Owing to three successive short crops, the world price for cotton is extraordinarily high, and there is every encouragement for foreigners to undertake cotton growing. The scarcity of American cotton has been due to the boll weevil and the shortage of labor in the cotton belt...
...tires of idealism which once warmed the blood of the old liberal party have been rekindled. And in an Donald's ministry would at once kindle age of reconstruction it would seem that it is such a spirit that is best fitted to hew new paths. The fate of the labor party rests rather in its methods than in its principles...
...since the Englishman in politics is admittedly empirical the immediate fate of the Labor Ministry doubtless rests upon the results of its present program. By initiating a strange foreign policy that has been characteristic recent governments Premier MacDonald has appeased at British longing which Mr. Golding declares has gone unsatisfied since the early nineteenth century. There remains the vexing problem of unemployment. If any thing is likely to wreck the immediate political fortunes of the present ministry it will be popular impatience with an unavoidable slowness in reshaping the economic forces now depressing English industry...
Some classes of stocks have taken part in the rally which has occurred since last Fall, and have all along remained at low levels. Such has been the fate of most leather, shipping, rubber and fertilizer shares, and it reflects something tougher than a bed of roses in these particular industries. Now stocks of other classes are beginning to "look sick." Automobile shares have gone down hill despite advertisements of the new four-wheel brakes. Steels have followed them. There is little song in the tobacco camp. On the other hand, rails have held rather well...
...station of departure, Willy Dreyer was given a rousing send-off on his last journey. Dr. Karl Jarres, the Vice Chancellor delivered a funeral oration, picturing the fate of the 1,500 Germans sentenced for sabotage in the Ruhr. Crying "Down with the Republic! Down with the Jews!" the howling mass of monarchists seized republican flags and tore them up. Cavalry squadrons of Reichswehr charged the monarchists and ended their assault on the flag of the Reich. Their cheers for Hitler and Ludendorff broke up the marching order of 30 nationalist organizations and destroyed their treasonable emblems. Scores were hurt...