Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upper Austrian Heimwehr, Austria's secret reactionary military organization, but had been equipping Heimwehr troops at his own expense, drilling them on the grounds of his castle, just as his ancestors drilled and equipped their henchmen. Complacent Linz police saw no reason to interfere. Prince Ernst might be drilling, they said, but he was breaking...
Governor of the Federal Reserve Board is Roy Archibald Young, 47, solid, capable, popular. When the announcement was made his words were few and cryptic: ". . . [We] have considered how the resources of the Federal Reserve System might best be conserved and made available to meet autumn requirements. The problem has presented difficulties because of certain peculiar conditions." The increased rate was not adopted however for the Reserve Banks of Chicago or Philadelphia...
Angry depositors, just told by the receiver that they might eventually receive 20? instead of 5? or 10? on the dollar, added four more items to the sum of what happens to bad bankers. Each item was an egg thrown at the three manacled convicts on their way to jail. One egg smashed on James Rae Clarke's straw...
...year in gasoline and oil. A city station of the same size may sell three times as much. But whether 200 or 1,000 gallons of gasoline per day gush through a hose into 30 gas tanks, many motorists must wait beside the filling station. While they wait they might as well be sold something...
From Lawrenceville, N. J. to Buenos Aires is 5,300 miles. Not many people in Lawrenceville have frequent occasion to telephone to Buenos Aires, though Thornton Niven Wilder, who teaches school there, might have liked to telephone Peru while writing The Bridge of San Luis Key. Nevertheless, the telephone operators of Lawrenceville may expect many a call for Buenos Aires to go through before long. Arrangements were made last week for International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook its telephone-subscribers to its short wave radio station at Buenos Aires and for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook U. S. telephone...