Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mrs. Willebrandt: "The [snoop] system seems the only way at present to find the facts necessary to keep conditions wholesome in the penitentiaries. It [snooping] has been' fairly and equitably'applied...
...discuss such routine things as a contribution to national Democratic deficit. Finally Secretary Eagan asked the chairman for permission to read a letter. He read: "Because of ill health and on advice of physicians I resign as leader of Tammany Hall. George W. [Washington] Olvany." Silence. Looks. Leader Olvany, present, said nothing.* Followed then days of consternation, for a New York mayoralty contest looms. Nearly every district leader hoped for the succession. Meanwhile to Surrogate James A. Foley everyone, including Alfred E. Smith and James J. Walter looked for advice...
Twenty hours would be a feat indeed. The present record is 15½ hrs., made by a German. Germans have mounted 2,500 ft., have traveled 42 mi. in gliders. They have glider clubs at practically all universities. Each year the clubs hold a grand rodeo over the rolling hills of Wasser-kuppe, near Frankfort-am-Main. German flying organizations require that their pilots be graduates of flying schools. There is a Deutscher und Segelfluguerband and a special periodical, Flugsport...
...present Duke of Wellington celebrated in his Piccadilly home, last week, his 80th birthday. As a grandson of the "Iron Duke" he holds the highest foreign titles possessed by any British peer, is the Netherlandic Prince of Waterloo and a Portuguese Knight of the Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword, and ranks in Spain as a Grandee of the First Class. His 19,200 English acres bring him far more in revenue, of course, than the 99 year-old tribute of little Belgium...
...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 of the U. S. with J. Pierpont Morgan...