Word: goode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seemingly considering that he had done a good week's work in obtaining the lukewarm informal acquiescence of 27 nations. Prime Minister Briand presently left Geneva, returned to Paris, received the formal assent of his Cabinet to what he had done. Then he went off to his farm at Concherel on the coast of Normandy for a brief vacation. "I shall probably take a short sea trip in a very small yacht," he said, "the smaller the better, for the sea was my first love...
...good friend of long suffering "Conchies" is the present Labor Government. Prime Minister MacDonald himself objected long and violently to the War. Other onetime "Conchies" throng Labor's councils. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden signed an order...
...Soviet Army's propaganda magazine Red Star. Kicked out of the Ministry of Education, last week, to make room for General Bubnov, was high-strung, sensitive, super-cultured Anatole Lunacharsky. He encouraged esthetic dancing, once directed an educational motion picture in which his wife was instructively seduced. A good many unesthetic people predict that Bubnov will not do worse...
Commentators saw in the St. Lawrence transaction a Mellon-Morgan alliance, quickly created a super-superpower project by linking the Mellon-Pennsylvania properties, the Morgan-New York properties, and adding Manhattan's New York Edison and Consolidated Gas for good measure. It was also rumored that Niagara-Hudson was negotiating with Stone & Webster for Eastern Utilities Associates, a group of light and power companies operating chiefly in New England. Out of all the rumors and rumbles, however, salient emerging points were: 1) That J. P. Morgan & Co. has undoubtedly become acutely interested in light and power; 2) That...
...every good bank come many sound investing opportunities which must be refused because of legal restrictions. So, in order to widen their operating field, most large banks have investment affiliates, somewhat less conservative than the banks themselves. Step Three in the employment of currency would obviously be for the bank to organize an investment trust, and that is what Chicago's Continental-Illinois Bank Trust Co., largest U. S. bank outside Manhattan, did last week. President was Arthur Reynolds, who is board chairman of Continental-Illinois. Vice-president was James R. Leavell, also a Continental-Illinois vice president...