Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This formula was followed through the 47 other States, alphabetically, Senator Shortridge's sepulchral voice brought an impertinent clamor of "Louder." Rhode Island's full name-The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation-was carelessly omitted. Mr. Gifford modified the formula when he announced that Massachusetts "seemed" to have gone for Smith. "Whoopee!" cried the Democrats. A Republican rebel yell punctuated the Texas and Virginia votes...
...Judge Winslow said it was all "a diabolical plot." The chief citation against him was that he had suspended sentence on a ''crooked bust'' named Meyer Kaplan in return for an "understanding" which, when subsequently not fulfilled, caused Buster Kaplan to be jailed for the full sentence...
...four hours a day or more, last week, the famed "Iron Man" of German finance faced the fiscal representatives of six creditor states,* thrusting at them reasons why Germany must not pay, either quickly or in full, the bills they have presented. With a studious, almost pugnacious restraint Dr. Schacht stopped time and again on the brink of saying, "Germany cannot pay." His manner bristled with the confidence that this conclusion would be reached by anyone not a nincompoop. Hour after hour the U. S. Chairman of the Committee, Owen D. Young, sat slightly reclined, with his long lawyer-legs...
Perhaps the most ingenious argument advanced by the Iron Man, last week, sought to prove that the huge U. S. loans made to Germany since the War provide not the best reason why Germany must pay her Reparations debt in full, but rather one of the best reasons why she should not pay. These U. S. bonds, reasoned Dr. Schacht, saddle Germany with the necessity of paying $240,000,000 interest, every year, and that stupendous charge obviously curtails the Reich's ability to continue paying the present $595,000,000 annual scale of Reparations...
...offensive began in 1926. Only 45,000 pianos had been sold to Germans in 1926, as against 60,000 in other years. The tycoons were scared. Therefore they organized an "American Campaign" of high-pressure salesmanship, something unprecedented in the Reich. Salesmen rambled through the countryside with trucks full of pianos, selling and delivering on the spot, selling on credit, shouting, pleading, browbeating...