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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gold: The Agent General urges immediate resumption of gold coinage by Germany, since the "Gold reserves of the Reichsbank now stand at the highest point ever reached; and, for the greater part of this last year, the mark has been one of the strongest currencies in the world, from the standpoint of foreign exchanges...
...when a message arrived summoning him to appear again before Senator Reed's investigating committee in Washington, D. C. The Reed strategy was this: get the Senate to take up the Vare case again, and since discussion of a Senator's seat is a subject of highest privilege, this postpones and perhaps prevents the ratification of the Kellogg-Briand Treaty...
There are flippants who think of Ossip Gabrilowitsch as the little conductor with the highest collar in the world. There are others who know him better-as the Russian pianist who came to the U. S. and married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, or as the conductor who went to Detroit and built up an orchestra there...
Zeus of all those Olympians is of course Henry Fairfield Osborn, 71, president of the American Association. That presidency is the highest honor that U. S. and Canadian scientists can give a colleague. Yet its tenure is for only one year and a man must have a permanent post. What such post any one scientist considers best is hard to indicate. Generally the secretaryship of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington is best esteemed. To that secretaryship the Institution elected Dr. Osborn in 1906, upon the death of Samuel Pierpont Langley. Dr. Osborn declined. He preferred to stay on as assistant...
...before them and said: "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born ... a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Then for a moment all around stood a multitude of heavenly figures crying: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace...