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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...M. Briand is a bachelor...
Muddle & Stalemate. Though superficially plausible the Hughes stand won over no Nationalist M. P. except Yachtsman Marks. Only the fact that the Government was balanced on a single vote made possible a debacle which throws before Australian voters an issue mixed and muddled as completely as possible by Parliament. The one clean-cut way out would be a sweeping victory for the chief Opposition party (Labor), but few observers believed that possible, last week, because recent state elections have heavily favored the Nationalists. Gloomily, Australians faced the post-election prospect of another Nationalist Government stalemated by the feud between Hughes...
...many weeks past small bombs have been bursting under assorted public buildings in Schleswig-Holstein and North Prussia. Three weeks ago another bomb, the eleventh in the series, burst noisily in the cellar of the German Reichstag at 4 a. m.. breaking many windows. Spurred by offers of a $15,000 reward, German police concentrated on the bombings...
...Eddyville, Ky., Carl Hord, 27, murderer of a grocer, sat in an electric chair. When the switch was thrown, 2,000 volts went through his body. Murderer Hord slumped, then straightened up. "Boys," he remarked, "I'm not dead...
...trust, and that is what Chicago's Continental-Illinois Bank Trust Co., largest U. S. bank outside Manhattan, did last week. President was Arthur Reynolds, who is board chairman of Continental-Illinois. Vice-president was James R. Leavell, also a Continental-Illinois vice president. The directorate included George M. Reynolds, Stanley Field, Charles F. Glore, D. R. McLennan, Eugene M. Stevens, Edward F. Swift, F. Edson White. Christened Continental Chicago Corp., and with an initial financing of $65,000,000, the new company was designed for an ultimate capitalization of $500,000,000. Continental-Illinois Co. (the investment affiliate...