Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canadian company, which made some millions of dollars on the transaction, was a "shadow" or "dummy," concern, and that Albert B. Fall received $230,000 in Liberty Bonds as his share of the profits. When the Teapot Dome case first came up before a Federal court in Cheyenne (TIME, March 23, 1925), Mr. Blackmer, along with one James E. O'Neil, president of the Prairie Oil Co., left for France. Mr. O'Neil has not been located since. Mr. Blackmer was found on May 11 by U. S. Consul at Marseilles Bernard F. Hale and then and later...
...into past regrets." Representative Charles A. Christopherson, farm-relief advocate, announced that all doubt concerning a third term had been swept away. The President made no speeches, no promises, receded not an inch from the posi-tion he took in vetoing the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill (TIME, March 7). But the honor of his presence, the potency of his office, turned suspicion into acclamation as hostility succumbed to hospitality. Should South Dakota love the President in November as it does in June, the state's electoral vote seems indeed assured...
...Peking did not honor his "inauguration" by their presence, seemed totally unimpressed. The wire was strung, the bags piled up (TIME, April 11) to barricade the Occidental quarter at Shanghai against possible Chinese violence after that city was taken by the "Nationalist" armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, March 28). Last week the danger of Chinese violence at Shanghai was thought to have vanished. As a precaution, however, the barricades were taken down only where they interfered with traffic, were left standing at many places in case of future emergency...
...From Manhattan at the beginning of the War sail a German and an Irishman; the first to join the German army, the second the Russian, because of his love for a Muscovite sculptress. Meeting on the muddy Eastern front, they decide to quit the War, and, dressed as women, march off into dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand. Is it a ball? The room spreads as vast...
...Thus the N. Y. C. became the third major eastern railroad to increase its dividend rate within the twelvemonth. Last November the Pennsylvania changed from 6% to 1%. In November also the B. & O. increased from 5% to 6%. In addition the B. & O. last March declared an extra 1.5% dividend...