Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French press last week, when Dr. Schacht as president of the German Reichsbank raised its discount rate from 6½% to 7½%. The inference drawn excitedly in Paris was that the Reichsbank w?s trying to give the impression that German finances are already overstrained and cannot bear even the present reparations burden...
...draft convention], we still believe; nevertheless, as I indicated the other day, if we are to be able to join in a common draft, it will be necessary for concessions to be made not only on the part of one but on the part of every delegation here present...
...That young iconoclast, Edward of Wales, owns a Rolls-Royce town car, but like his father uses a Crossley in the field. The Sovereign's sister, Queen Maud of Norway, recently gave her son, Crown Prince Olaf, a U. S. Marmon sedan (purchased in London) for a wedding present...
...occasion of Sir James's effort last week was a banquet-benefit staged for the Newspaper Press Fund. Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, M.P., presided. Present was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who, as everyone knows, is addicted to detective fiction...
...miles in dimensions, the doughty Mennonites have already constructed 14 adobe villages. They enjoy local autonomy and cannot be called upon to take up arms. Among themselves they speak German, are rapidly forgetting the English they learned in Canada, and are slowly picking up a little Spanish. At present the Mennonite Colony is almost the only pure Democracy in America...