Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later Jeannette, successful, has risen as high in her firm as a woman could. She is getting $50 a week?nearly half as much as her successor would start in at if that successor were a man. She is lady bountiful to Alice's children. But the spice has gone out of her work, for sex-discrimination keeps her from the higher rungs of the ladder and her only human contacts are the vicarious ones with Alice's family, with her roommate, with Mitxi, her cat. Stung by an impulse she does not wholly understand, she attempts to resume contact...
...holy places for which the older crusaders fought. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has, since the year 328 A. D., kept intact many of the sacred buildings and sites of Palestine. Most of the income of this little patriarchate came from Russia. This support is now almost entirely gone. The falling exchange of Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, has almost wiped out the revenue of the Patriarch, and the hospitality which he and his flock are constantly called upon to show toward visiting Christians has, since 1920, piled up a debt of $3,500,000. Colonel J. B. Barron, Chairman...
Greek finances are badly demoralized by the failure of the war with Turkey. The Governor of the National Bank of Greece has gone to London to raise a loan. Greece made application for help from the League of Nations, which, after examining the proposals and plans for the settlement of Greek refugees, stated that the guarantees offered by the Greek Government were sufficient for raising a loan. The exact amount to be borrowed is not known, but will probably be between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 pounds sterling...
Susan B. Anthony, gone and well remembered...
...Bastrop, La., semiprofessional nine. "The team has been cleaning up in Morehouse Parish and has walloped almost every club it has met in north Louisiana and south Arkansas. . . . Members of the Alexandria club say that Jackson and Cicotte are still with the Bastrop team, but Risberg and Weaver have gone elsewhere. . . . Cicotte is playing under the name of Moore...