Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mark Sullivan, Washington correspondent, vouched for the fact that Bryan for two years before the 1896 Democratic Convention had been stumping up and down the Missouri Valley speaking for free silver, hammering out the similes and metaphors and phrases that went into the making of the "Cross of Gold" speech. Several people testified that Bryan had his plans for capturing the Democratic nomination in 1896 laid long in advance, had asked at least one delegate to the convention, Colonel Franklin Pierce Morgan, a newspaperman, to vote for him, had secured for himself the last place on the list of speakers...
Number One. At 2.30 the previous afternoon, Judge Elbert H. Gary of the U. S. Steel Corporation invited a number of distinguished persons to attend a meeting at his office in Manhattan. The guests included Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mark O. Prentiss; William E. Knox, President of the American Bankers' Association; William B. Joyce, Chairman of the National Surety Co.; Governor Smith of New York, Assemblyman F. Trubee Davison and others...
...Story. She it was that had brought the wrath of Yahweh upon her kind little father. She, Leah, an outcast from Israel. The mark of the beast was upon her for meeting a vast shaggy moujik (Gentile peasant) with strong arms and tender lips in the willows where once he had come upon her bathing naked...
...Zimmerman of Zimmerman & Forshay, who is Chairman of the American Association of Holders of German Mark Securities, at once wrote a letter of protest to the Curb Association about the matter. He and his fellow members of the A. A. H. G. M. S. have by no means forgotten their mark securities, fallen to worthlessness almost by the recent devaluation of the War mark. Mr. Zimmerman declares that this devaluation has amounted to repudiation, that in effect Cologne and other German cities are in default on their mark bonds, and that therefore no German city should be permitted...
Unfortunately for the A. A. H. G. M. S., however, the original mark bonds were payable in German marks, and the debtors are therefore able to fulfill their literal contract by paying them with this now worthless currency. The new bonds are in terms of U. S. gold dollars and in this respect at least stand on a different financial basis. Morally Mr. Zimmerman's protest is well taken, but legally it is fatally weak. The effect of. his action, however, is important, not only with the new Cologne dollar loan, but with a number of other dollar loans...