Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Premier Poincare in Paris: "The Government has now held the franc stable at approximately 25 to the dollar and 123 to the pound since the first of the year (TIME, Jan. 3). ... The Government will do everything in its power to maintain this stability, and will continue to buy and sell francs at this rate until further notice...
...seven years, George M. Ogle, able Manhattan power engineer, has been ogling at the secrets of life, death and "juice''* as exhibited by the electric chair at Sing Sing penitentiary. Last week Mr. Ogle announced some of the results of his observations and experiments...
...There are naive libertarians who comfort and delude themselves with the theory that if only everything were printable, and if, everything could be photographed, we should arrive at a condition where nothing would shock the moralist and nothing would excite anybody. . . . The purging power of frankness does not fit these spectacles. It may be that when the tabloids have squeezed the last bit of sensation out of the Rhinelander case, for example, their public would then be bored with another spectacle dealing with miscegenation; that after the Browning case their public will for a time be immunized against further interest...
Died. Eugene Turpin, 78, inventor of melinite;* of pulmonary congestion, at Pontoise, France. His life was embittered in 1889 when he was falsely accused of treason, a Captain Tripone having stolen his secret and sold his invention to a foreign power. He was pardoned in 1893 and exonerated in 1901. Last week Cross of the Legion of Honor, which he had not worn since he had been accused, was placed on his coffin...
...steppes and the snowfields. From the opening curtain to the great climatic scene of Borl's coronation, when through the crashes of the belt and the shouts of the almost oriental populace, there swells the martial music of the marching procession, Russia, that Russia of the pomp and power of the early Czars is before our eyes...