Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King-Emperor, apparently convinced that peace was not in sight, summoned Parliament to reassemble long enough to ratify an extension of the Emergency Power Act. The House of Commons under Premier Baldwin's firm hand, complied by a vote of 332 to 91. Laborite J. J. ("Jumping Jack") Jones became so excited that he had to be suspended again...
...conservative and secure of thrones (1898). Three years later the young Queen espoused as her consort Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Eight years later she gave birth to Juliana amid heartfelt rejoicings. Upon Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana the love and loyalty of the Netherlands is fixed with a firm if stolid passion. Wilhelmina was the sole issue of the late King Willem III. Juliana's position is equally unique. Therefore, without intrusion, a corps of able Dutch special police guarded each moment of the Princess' girl-guiding last week...
...least non-German bankers. The machinery or "producer-goods" security for such loans would then become literally a foreign mortgaged harness for the German worker. Who may be called upon to fit this harness? Only last week a trifle of preliminary fitting was done by the potent Manhattan firm of Dillon, Read & Co. The cables carried news that the great Diskonto Gesellschaft, the largest bank in Germany, has been forced to increase its capital by 35 million gold marks, of which 10 million were acquired by Dillon, Read. Though this transaction was entirely extra-Dawes Plan, it unquestionably...
Next day Bishop Diaz of Tabasco, active spokesman for the Mexican Episcopate was granted an audience with President Calles. Though the Government was reported to have stood firm on the letter of the present anti-religious laws, Bishop Diaz hinted guardedly to newsgatherers that a formula might be found under which the holding of Catholic services would be tolerated, though discouraged by the State...
...Through the lanes of Duddleston fled a yokel in a nightshirt screaming, "The end of the world has come!" In Hereford, the town clock struck thrice though it was really five o'clock. At Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. tourists clutched their passports and pocketbooks; the "sure and firm set earth" was trembling violently with the roar of an express train. It was Britain's third temblor in a month, the severest in 30 years, part of a series indicating that for the first time in history Britain was in an active earthquake zone. Vesuvius. Home bodies whose...