Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present time the number is not much more than 1,800,000. Manufacturing . . . one-third higher than in 1927. . . . Iron and steel production more than twice as large. . . . Mining industries active...
...most potent banker in France, M. Emile Moreau, has never held a post in a private bank. Last week the mere report that he had threatened to resign as Governor of the Bank of France caused consternation among politicians and appeared to have swayed the iron judgment of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare himself. The question at issue was whether to set up the now virtually stabilized paper franc on a gold basis. To this problem M. Moreau brings strictly practical knowledge acquired during an entire lifetime spent in the Treasury and allied services, latterly as Director General of the State...
Last week the focus of this ebullient international incident was a Berlin cab driver, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann, 69. Clad in a neat navy blue great coat, beaming behind his reddish beard, and nursing a fat cigar, "Iron Gustav" rode triumphantly up the Champs Elysees, acknowledging the chorus of perhaps ironic "Vives!" with stately bows and majestic flourishings of his high, white stovepipe...
...constant endeavor since taking office has been to establish order and morality in my Administration. I believe that I have complied with that purpose by having suppressed with an iron hand such crimes as that now in question immediately upon discovering them. I will continue that line of conduct until I leave office...
Died. George A. Newett, 72, publisher of Iron Ore; at Ishpeming, Mich., after a long illness. In 1913 the late President Theodore Roosevelt sued him for libel, for having described the Roosevelt julep bed, and accused him of intemperance. Editor Newett lost the $10,000 suit, was fined...