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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a news forecast came out of Washington last week when the Treasury Department prepared to issue permits which would start distilleries making bourbon and rye whiskies to replenish fast-dwindling medicinal stocks. Distillers from Louisville and Baltimore went into conference with Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran who will supervise the reopening of U. S. liquor factories. Throughout the land government gaugers measured the whiskey supply held in bonded warehouses, forwarded their reports to Washington...
Fluctuations of nearly $15,000,000 in the total value of, shares in British Royal Mail-world's largest shipping corporation-resulted last week when Tycoon Viscount St. Davids quarreled violently with his brother Tycoon Baron Kylsant, Chairman of the B. R. M., "Lord of the Seven Seas...
...sizzling Paris heat at last proved too much for even grizzly-bearded M. Raymond Poin-caré. He, "Lion of Lorraine," President of France during the War and for 35 months past her indomitable Prime Minister, will be on the 20th of next month 69 years old. In the course of the present debt debate (TIME, July 22), he had addressed the Chamber for a total of more than 37 hours (three or four hours daily) reading every word from sheets covered with his neat, almost microscopic handwriting. Result: the strain gave him a high "gastric fever," his physician last...
Nothing could have been more fortunate for the Government, for the cause of ratification, for the Prime Minister himself. The Deputies, overawed by M. Poin-caré's gargantuan logic, had given him a vote of confidence 304 to 239 on a minor issue, but they had also grown sick and tired of the sound and sight of him. Sighs of relief stirred the sultry air as the Government's defense was taken over by pouchy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, wise and wily as an old tomcat, nine times Prime Minister of France, incomparably her most winning...
...course: 41 miles from Kittery to Marblehead. Oldster Team. England last week chose four oldsters, one youngster for the null man Cup team which will play in the U. S. at Forest Hills, L. I., next month. The team: Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron, Mrs. P. H. Covefl, Mrs. M. H. Watson, Mrs. L. R. C. (Peggy Saunders) Mitchell, Miss Betty Nuthall. Youngsters passed over: Eileen Bennett, Joan Fry, Joan Ridley. Fight. Because he seemed to have no intention of carrying out an old contract with Arthur Bulow, his onetime manager, Heavyweight Max Schmeling was forbidden...