Word: highest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury since Alexander Hamilton, cannot afford to indulge in wishful thinking. Financiers were inclined, last week, to be instructed, rather than startled by what financial writers called Secretary Mellon's "bold" plan for refinancing the Third Liberty Loan which matures in September. With the money market hitting its highest since 1920 Secretary Mellon offered to exchange 3⅛% bonds for the 4¼% Third Liberty Bonds, which mature in September. He gave the new bonds a life of 12 to 15 years. Like most Government securities, they were only partially taxexempt. The conclusion was that no matter how high...
...Charles Evans Hughes but the great British Liberal, Sir John Simon, highest feed London barrister, veteran statesman, and Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission, said: "Every father of an English girl sees in the affair of Miss Savidge an example of police methods which might be applied to his own innocent daughter...
...thoroughgoing ogre, M. Le Capitaine is of thickset, pugnacious build, has quarreled with and knocked down doormen and waiters at smart Deauville Casino. The prodigious Loewenstein retinue, male & female, have been reported to receive, in addition to highest wages, a certain amount of cuffing...
...arrested in Vienna, Austria (TIME, May 7), and last week his trial began. He wore a red tie, the virile emblem of his militant Communism. Reeking with wood violets, he disconcerted his judges, drowned the musty odors of the courtroom, and recalled that Wilhelm II, onetime Kaiser and All Highest, esteemed wood violet as a second best perfume to his favorite Kolnisches Wasser or Eau de Cologne...
...That was the last selling price of a seat. The highest was $395,000 (TIME, April...