Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to properly, and exactly, place the blame instead of saying; "Roman Catholics, however, have feared Federal interference with parochial schools and it has been their influence largely, etc.,". You should have said that it was the opposition coming from the Catholic Hierarchy, who are fundamentally opposed to all public schools, that is largely responsible for keeping "Education in a bureau under legislative lock...
Chicago, as usual, had the lead in numbers-498. But Chicago's rate per 100,000 was only 15.8, letting it out of first place among the six largest U. S. cities. Big Detroit committed 16.5 murders for each 100,000 of its population. Across the river, Windsor, Ont, had an estimated rate of only 9. Bloodthirsty Negroes were what boosted Detroit's figures...
...experts at Paris were understood to have agreed, last week, that $100,000,000 will represent the working capital of the proposed Bank of International Settlement. If and when established the Bank will act as a corporate trustee for the stupendous volume of German payments-the idea being to place "on a business basis" the present semipolitical functions of the Reparations Commission, which is to be absorbed by the B. I. S. This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative...
Suppose that one considered 84 an attractive buy in Liberals. Then by having one's broker "place" ?1 ($4.86) at that figure one would get exactly one's money back if the Liberals win 84 seats, and would receive an additional pound for every seat they win above that number. Inversely, if one sells Liberals at 80, and if only 70 candidates of that party are returned to the House, one pockets a crisp "tenner" ($48.60). To guess wrong in either buying or selling is to lose a pound a seat...
Gamle Oslo. Until last week no royal marriage had taken place in Oslo since the 16th Century, when King James VI of Scotland there espoused Princess Anne of Denmark and Norway in 1589. Historic Gamle† Oslo was founded by potent Harold Haardraada about 1050, and petite Princess Martha comes to reign-eventually-over a proud little city which was already old when her own rich and extensive Stockholm was founded upon mud flats and granite in 1255 by Birger, Jarl (Earl) of Bjelbo. Last week, on the very site of the Jarl's first great hall...