Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Place: Paris...
Scene: The oldfashioned, high ceilinged sittingroom of a private suite in the musty and second class Princess Hotel. Through the casement windows one looks out on the Place de L'Etoile; and a portion of the Arc de Triomphe is visible. There is a notice asking guests to put out the light when leaving the room, and another stating that the laundress of the hotel is the only one admitted. The suite is that of John Pierpont Morgan. (A secretary permits reporters to enter the hall, and Mr. Morgan emerges from his bedroom. The correspondents are excited, abashed and somewhat...
Correspondents (catching a glimpse of Owen D. Young in the chairman's place): "They've elected Young!" (Correspondents rush out to file cablegrams. On their return a handout is issued, stating that all the delegates made brief perfunctory speeches, and announcing that no minutes of the proceedings were kept. Curtain...
...Bible, as the infallible word of God, is being crucified on the cross of culture and neo-culture and nailed in place with the nails of taboo...
...banks of 14 nations.* Their joint representative in Rumania will be a Frenchman, suave Charles Rist. Last week M. Rist resigned as a Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, hopped a train for Bucharest. There he will assist the new Peasant Government of Rumania (TIME, Nov. 19) to place the leu on an absolute gold basis at its present rate of exchange, 167.18 lei to the dollar...