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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia christenings, marriages and death ceremonies occur, are celebrated and mourned without the aid of the Church. Bolshevism has given a peculiar tinge to the first ceremony. Among Russian names are given: Vladimir Ilich (after Lenin whose real name is V. I. Ulianov-Lenin) ; Klara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg (after two leading women Bolsheviki) ; Jaurès (after a French Communist, assassinated in 1914) ; Rem, meaning "revolution, electrification and meer (peace)"; Nep, meaning New Economic Policy; and some others...
...factor-an abundance of credit. The gold ratios of Reserve Banks are high, and the danger has been that too much credit would be extended, rather than that a credit shortage would develop. If the banks ever let go the brakes, a larger inflation than even 1919-20 might occur. At the same time our overlarge gold supply helps in making the business outlook unpredictable according to old methods, because of this necessary yet artificial control of credit now being exercised. Just now the likelihood is for slightly lower money rates, with a consequent rise in bonds and other fixed...
...attack for a team to get into position for a field-goal. In basketball, a chance to shoot a foul is the result of a penalty. It is no credit to the team that benefits by it. It is due entirely to a mistake by its opponents. Furthermore, fouls occur constantly in basketball, but in football chances for drop-kicks are limited in almost every case to three or four a game. There is no reason for a change in football, but the change in basketball was needed for the good of the game...
...next meeting will occur on either January 20 or 27 and the speaker will be Mr. John Foster Dellis of the Inter-Allied Reparations Committee...
...Rousmaniere expressed the opinion that the present fundamental movement is a reactionary result of the liberal thought fostered by the war. As for the heralded "rift in the Episcopal Church" he was positive that no such thing would occur." Ever since the sixteenth century, there have been two parties, liberal and conservative, in the church. It is the old difference of high church and low church...