Word: marches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury Department announced its quarterly financing for March 15. It offered 475 millions worth of Treasury certificates to run for nine months at an interest rate of 4¾%. To Mr. Mellon it must have seemed very much as if the people were exacting usurious interest from their Government. In the last five years he has sold Treasury certificates bearing as low .as 2¾%. True, last October he was also obliged to pay 4¾%, but in December, coincident with a break in the stock market he was able to market an issue at 4¼%, although there...
...orders were issued to double the bail required in all liquor cases before Federal Commissioners. 3) Trucking firms who have been transporting liquor to foreign embassies in Washington were told to cease; only actual diplomats in actual diplomatic automobiles may transport liquor. 4) Seven men arrested in Manhattan on March 4 waited last week to find out the hour and minute of Calvin Coolidge's signing the Jones Act-hoping it was signed at least one minute after their arrests-but Attorney-General Mitchell announced that anyone caught that day would be tried under the Jones...
...March 4, 1921, Mrs. John Mathes of Pompton Lakes. N.J.. bore a son, which like many others born that day, was christened Warren Harding. On March 4, 1929, the same Mrs. John Mathes of Pompton Lakes, N.J., bore her second son. This infant, like others born that day, was named Herbert Hoover...
Costes to Le Brix. Joseph Le Brix, flying from Paris to Saigon, French Indo-China (TIME, March 4). crashed safely into the Gulf of Martaban, Burma, last week. In Paris was his onetime world-tour partner and present antagonist. Dieudonne Costes, who crashed a fortnight ago at the beginning of a similar pan-Eurasian flight. Crashed Flyer Costes sent Crashed Flyer Le Brix a carefully polite message of condolence...
...great financiers assembled in Paris as the Second Dawes Committee spent last week in elaborating privately their plan of creating a stupendous Bank of International Settlement (TIME, March 11) to deal simultaneously and on a business basis with every phase of the German...