Word: londons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the London announcement was cabled to Argentina, ferreting Buenos Aires reporters wormed out the further fact that the d'Abernon mission had arranged an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of £16,000,000 ($77,760.000) to facilitate the mutual buying and selling provided for in the main agreement. The usually well-informed La Prensa declared that the British Government would use its £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) purchases of Australian food and raw materials "to feed and clothe the British Army and Navy...
...board, erase them, write other figures. None spoke loudly but each spoke often. They were selling silver and they were gathered in the silver exchange. In Peking and Shanghai similar groups were gathered. They too were selling. When they were through selling last week silver prices in London and Wall Street reached the lowest low in ten years: approximately 50⅞? an ounce. A month ago Chinese speculators held approximately 20,000,000 ounces of silver, at the end of last week they had sold 50,000,000, were apparently on the short side to the extent...
Born. To Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, English socialite, the Nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle; a son; in London. Said the London Daily News: "She has caught the popular imagination by ranking first a happy marriage with its normal completion in the cradle...
Last week to London went many Catholics for the National Catholic Congress and a simultaneous celebration of the Centenary of Emancipation. First came a speech by His Eminence Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster and head of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain...
Cardinal v. Sex. A congress of sexperts was meeting in London simultaneously to discuss another kind of "emancipation." Incensed, Cardinal Bourne attacked this other congress...