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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared in the CRIMSON. Since then we have checked over our list of members with a view both to authenticity of the individual signatures and as to numbers. We have found that the total exceeds the 445 names reported to the CRIMSON. Tuesday. Our files, however, will be kept open for further inspection by those whose suspicions are still alive. In the meantime we owe and gladly proffer an apology to Mr. Breithut, and assure him that his name will not again appear on our membership files...
Therefore last week Helga and Gertrud, the two little granddaughters of Old Paul von Hindenburg, dutifully kept their starched dresses clean of grass stains and their opinions to themselves. They were not the only ones balked of celebrating the 81st Birthday of the President of the German Republic. Scores, nay, hundreds of civic organizations had applied for permits to parade and joyfully demonstrate, in Berlin, before the Presidential Mansion...
...Berlin early risers crowded to the rooftops to cheer this "symbol of German invincibility." Work ceased for the morning. On one rooftop the widow of a former Zeppelin officer, who had kept watch since dawn, dropped dead as the glistening monster drifted overhead...
...conducting. Lest those factors-alone should breed complacency, the management complained in its program book of an estimated deficit of $134,000, blamed increased salaries, begged aid. Had the concert been dull more would have spent the time mulling over the appeal, considering their own budgets. But Conductor Koussevitzky kept them preoccupied...
...felt, and with reason, that the deliberations of 5,400 U. S. bankers, gathered for the meeting of the American Bankers' Association, held a more or less potent threat to the stockmarket. Many a banker, speaking for himself or his bank, had warned against frenzied speculation. The market had kept its strength, had soared through a record month. But traders feared the effect of a solemn and public pronouncement from the Philadelphia convention. Resolute bulls faced the 5,400 bankers with hostility...