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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adopted a resolution of condolence with the President on the death of his father, and adjourned for a day as mark of respect...
...fluctuates with every breath of political rumor, the Belgian franc has been stable at 4.54 cents since October of last year. Last week it crashed inexplicably to 4.01. Fiscal experts croaked that this was the most serious break in a European currency since the Dawes plan stabilized the German mark. At Brussels, Finance Minister Janssen was flayed by the Opposition for having allegedly withdrawn in part the support of the Government in "pegging" the franc. While the true cause of the break remained obscure, it was rumored that a slight devaluation of the franc to a point where...
...Israel L. Winter, who is Professor Emeritus of Public Speaking at the University. The Judges have been chosen as follows: Professor C. Edmund Neil, Professor of Psychology of Speech at Boston University, Mr. Ernest J. King, of the Boston Transcript, and the Reverend W. R. Leslie, of the St. Mark's Methodist-Episcopal Church in Brookline...
...TIMES: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, 1900-1904?Mark Sullivan-Scribner's ($5). Here is a book that brings back yesterday-recalls with vividness what our world was, not ages ago, but in the daybreak of today. It is a history of the life and times of the average citizen a quarter century ago, his politics, his fashions in clothes, his advertisements, his economic problems, his popular songs, his heroes and his leaders, his jokes, his prophecies pathetic and otherwise, his medicine and his science, his art, his music and his literature. A unique savor is lent...
...unusual festivities will mark the passing of another year in the long life of President Eliot. He will receive members of his family and a few intimate friends during the day, but there will be no change in his ordinary day's program...