Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relentless pounding the little crippled Yorkshireman had driven into Latin heads that some sort of concession must be made to his demands. Shrewdly the French moved. Indignantly a question was raised by Prime Minister Aristide Briand: was the whole 45 million marks annual increase demanded by "mon cher M. Snowden" supposed to come out of the share in Reparations alloted to France (amounting to 54% of the total) ? Instantly, an actor taking his cue, the Governor of the Bank of France, potent Emile Moreau, was on his feet. With flashing eyes he cried, "If the whole of this burden...
Near Royal, Ill., a turtle climbed upon the west rail of a Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. track, sat down. Along putputted a "trouble car" carrying one H. Duncan, telephone workman, at 20 m. p. h. Workman Duncan was derailed...
Charlottesville. Most vivid of the week's events was a debate between Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran and Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie...
Fourth Day. The sun rose at 2 a. m. The Graf Zeppelin kept north of war-troubled Manchuria, reached the sea, cut south down the Japanese Archipelago. The Japanese Government asked Commander Eckener by radio if he approved being cited "the guest of the nation." He replied that he preferred "a few hours' rest and sleep first." However, upon landing courtesy obliged him to eat dried chestnuts, dried cuttle fish, drink saki...
...Felix M. Warburg gave $500,000 toward a fund to establish the finance corporation, was elected head of the administrative committee. The corporation, he said "must be conducted . . . by a board which tries its best for the shareholders. The business must be conducted calmly, without hysterics or indiscretion...