Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agreement over the total amount of Germany's war debt. The figures represent a triumph for the German stand that is best appreciated by comparing the $8,800,000,000 new decided upon as the total due with the $21,000,000,000 that was fixed at the London conference of 1921. Evidently in their anxiety at seeing their prospects dwindle with every consideration of the problem, the creditor nations are glad to win Germany's consent to a sum greatly below their original hopes rather than have the matter remain any longer in doubt...
...housing unit for the first and second string oarsmen, which is part of a $200,000 program underway at Red Top for new rowing quarters, will be ready for occupancy when the crews reach New London Sunday afternoon. The quarters now completed include only a building containing bedrooms, living room, and studies for the upperclassmen, but the second unit, a new boathouse, will be ready next year...
...London society was feverishly trying to guess last week who the author of King George's latest biography might be. The book, "By a Person in Close Touch with the Royal Family," was begun at the height of the King's illness in the ghoulish expectation of being the first posthumous biography. With the King's recovery, proof sheets of the volume were forwarded to Buckingham Palace for approval last week. Officials, horrified at the revelation of personal details in the King's private life, not only forbade its publication but sent special King...
Last week in London's staid Albert Hall, the mournful tune poured from the throats of 1,000 solid supporters of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
Died. Fred L. Boalt, of Portland, Ore., onetime editor of the Portland News; at Portland. While serving the United Press in London in 1910 he penetrated to the innermost corridors of Buckingham Palace by saying mysteriously to polite guards and chamberlains: "I am the U. P. man!" Finally he met King Edward VII.'s physician and obtained a world "scoop" in these four words: "The king is dying...