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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within two days ten billion francs ($400,000,000) of new money flowed in; and six billion francs in other government securities were exchanged for the new issue. Since this latter process-"consolidation" of previous higher interest bearing securities into the new loan-was the end chiefly sought by Prime Minister Poincaré, he announced on the second day of scrambling that no further cash subscriptions would be accepted, but welcomed further conversion which continued steadily all week...
...devoted subjects remember that not so long ago he heroically sprang from the running board of an automobile driven by his chauffeur and seized the bridles of two terrified horses which were running away with a farm wagon full of children (TIME, Sept. 21, 1925). A few months previous the intrepid Motorist Tsar stopped his car when fired upon by roadside assassins, opened fire with his own revolver and sent the plug-uglies flying for their lives (TIME, April...
...other U. S. citizen was known to have been killed in China, last week, but out of the Whangpoo River, eight miles below Shanghai, there was fished the lifeless body of U. S. Vice Consul Walter B. Wilson Jr., who had mysteriously disappeared a week previous...
Last fortnight, there was furious activity on the Thacher campus. Boys and girls, women and William Tatem Tilden II were playing and watching tennis from seven in the morning until seven in the evening. It was an annual affair; in previous years Maurice E. ("Red Comet'') McLaughlin, William ("Little Bill") Johnston, Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy (who won the women's singles for the eleventh time), and many another little Sutton and Bundy had battled for the Ojai challenge cups...
...Exceeding by $75,000 the previous record price for a single painting, paid by Sir Joseph Duveen for Gainsborough's Blue Boy (now in the Huntington Library in Pasadena, Calif...