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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beira, Monday. A lion has again made its appearance on the golf links here. It was heard twice last week. The spoor was also found near the nth hole. It is thought the animal has been outlawed by others and is now looking for food and water. Members of the club are seriously contemplating carrying a rifle in their golf bags...
...Mitten Plan, briefly, permits all employes to have a voice in the operation of the company, encourages them to become stockholders. The bequest, written into the will five days before the body was found, is invalid under the state law which nullifies charity bequests made within a month of the donor's demise, but his son, Dr. Arthur A. Mitten, who succeeded him as Mitten Management's president, will carry out his famed father's wishes, will create a trust, the Mitten Foundation...
...robbers" this time added an innovation. They ordered "drinks for all, on the house," commanded the orchestra to play on. Guests with spirits revived continued to revel, forgot their losses, while the bandits returned jewels to all women who consented to be their dancing partners. At daybreak police arrived, found sleepy guests, no bandits. Old Bombings. Into the swimming pool of the Lakeshore Athletic Club landed a bomb which shattered windows, blew out part of a wall, sent guests scurrying. Police found no bomber. . . . A bomb went off in the doorway of Broker Charles H. McCarthy's apartment, damaged...
Gustav Stresemann was born in Berlin in 1878, the son of a beer merchant. Father Stresemann had higher plans for young Gustav than the beer business. Scrimped pfennigs sent him to Berlin and Leipzig universities, found him. a good job in an association of chocolate manufacturers, paved the path that brought Gustav Stresemann to the Reichstag...
...disastrous Treaty of Versailles a sudden change came upon him. Always acutely practical he realized that right or wrong in the War, Germany was beaten, that her only hope of salvation lay in making friends with her former enemies. After a brief interval as German Chancellor, 1923 found him Germany's Foreign Minister, a position he has retained ever since. There followed the Locarno pact, Germany's entrance into the League-a record that won him the Nobel Peace prize in 1926 and which he topped off with the enthusiastic signing of the Kellogg anti-war pact. This...