Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, March 22, you quote W. W. Husband, Assistant Secretary of Labor, as saying...
...TIME, March 29, pp. 5-6, you say: "It is averred that [since John Adams' day] like joy never entered a father's heart [over seeing his son become President of the U.S.] until March 4, 1921, when Dr. Harding of Marion, Ohio, saw his son Warren become President." Now, General Grant's father saw his son twice elected and inaugurated as President of the U. S., and is the only man of whom that can be said. Although he had earlier experienced disgust over the flat failure that Ulysses had made of his career, there is no reason...
...brought about by fear. The Deputies of France saw the franc tumble down to 3.39½¢ at Manhattan, a world record for all time, and were at last stricken with the fear that if they refused again to vote adequate taxes, as they have refused for months (TIME, March 15, et ante), the franc might go the way of the pre-Dawes mark...
...million francs ($7,875,000) of added taxes on alcohol were passed, together with a poll tax expected to bring in 570 million francs ($19,950,000). Other miscellaneous taxes passed in quick succession. The whole, together with the taxes passed before the last Briand Cabinet fell (TIME, March 15), totaled a tax increase of somewhat more than four billion francs. This was an accomplishment of which MM. Briand and Peret might well have been proud. Yet the Premier ominously remarked: "I am not at all satisfied...
...Doumer (TIME. March 15); Loucheur (TIME, Dec. 21); Painleve (TIME, Nov. 30); Caillaux (TIME, Nov. 9); De Monzie (TIME, April 20, 1925); Clementel (TIME. April 13, 1925). The three Premiers in whose Cabinets these gentlemen served?Briand, Painleve and Herriot?have each fallen at least once on this same issue...