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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, life had become acutely distressing for Mr. Gann as he observed that a major social war was whirling horribly about his wife, in highest, mightiest circles. Vice President Curtis had notified Secretary of State Kellogg that Mrs. Gann was his hostess and that, as such, she should have the full rank of the Vice President's lady in the complex social scheme of official Washington. Secretary Kellogg had ruled that Mrs. Gann could not rate on the level of the Vice President but below the wives of the Chief Justice, the Speaker, the Secretary of State...
...speed she has been placed in a higher rating than any other ship afloat by the North Atlantic Conference of ship owners. Accordingly she will command a slightly higher minimum First Class rate than the $300 "crowded season minimum rate" of the Majestic, hitherto with the Leviathan highest in price and largest. So far as accommodations are concerned no radical
...Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny Lee, 24, daughter of a coal-miner, "a dad who never in all his life earned more than three pounds [$15] a week." As a graduate with highest honors from the University of Edinburgh, Jenny Lee, who is entitled to practice law but teaches school instead, proved a most formidable antagonist, took the seat from Lord Scone by nearly 7,000 majority. Connoisseurs observed that of the ten female M.P.'s the only one possessed of both youth...
...renewed at 9%. The rush of selling began. The bears pressed hot on the heels of their enemy; amateur speculators took flight and fled. Pool and investment houses which had been boosting favorites acknowledged the stampede, stepped aside to let it pass. The money rate went to 14%, the highest in nine years. At the close, many industrial stocks were down nine points or more...
Twenty five noteworthy stocks with their highest price in 1929 and their low price on March 26: 1929 March...