Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special type of export tax was devised to reduce the production of rubber. It was so arranged as to discourage production when prices were low, and to allow larger production during periods of high prices. The measure went into force in 1922. This year its effects began to be felt. Rubber rose in price from around 35¢ a pound to around $1 a pound. This is the condition complained...
...French Army, an alleged German spy, caught and fired the imagination of Clémenceau and Zola. Together they launched an attack upon the corrupt court martial which had convicted Dreyfus. The attack swelled into a national and then an international scandal the repercussions of which are still felt in France...
Before the soothing explanations were heard, however, Rabbi Wise felt obliged to hand in his resignation as Chairman of the $5,000,000 United Palestine Fund. Promptly famed Manhattan Jewish merchant Nathan Straus ("best loved U. S. Jew") made a further contribution of $150,000 to the fund, and flayed anyone and everyone who aspersed his friend Rabbi Wise. Later Mr. Straus predicted that the Rabbi's resignation would not be accepted...
...President Doumergue hand the red hat to Cardinal Dubois; received from Cardinal Dubois the red hat (which the Papal ablegate, Roman Prince Monte Leon, had rushed with the Papal decree of creation from Rome); knelt on a coronation cushion the République has frugally preserved from monarchial times; felt the soft folds of the cappa magna fall over his shoulders from the hands of his brother cardinal; passed into a makeshift vestry; donned in privacy the complete cardinalitial regalia; stepped out a prince of the Church; accepted felicitations. The band blared to perfection the Marseillaise...
...Ritz, his Manhattan home. It had been a satisfactory day. In the morning at the office of the Sun he had given a few directions to his trusty group of executives. The afternoon he had passed at his 1,000-acre estate on Long Island. He never felt better, he said. And others, as the year neared its end, were speaking of the phenomenal Sun profits?at least $1,000,000. Suddenly, at dinner, he became ill. Within a few hours, on the advice of Drs. Frank R. Oastler and Samuel W. Lambert, he was moved to the Lenox Hill...