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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign exchange experienced quiet trading and few significant movements in rates. The advance of silver bullion in the London and New York markets was responsible for a rise in the Oriental silver currencies. Sterling improved fraction ally, again moving through $4.70, Undoubtedly the most interesting circumstance in the foreign exchange market was the firmness of German marks, despite the continual wholesale printing of new paper currency-last week saw 389,000,000,000 new marks issued by the Reichsbank, The latter institution is for the time being successfully " rigging" the mark exchange rates by compelling Germans to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: Rigging the Mark | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

There are those who, despite the eat-drink-and-be-merry doctrine of college life, have work to do at one time or another. Men forced into such a position seek out Widener as a haven of peace and quiet. Some use it for only an hour or two at a time, but there are many students, especially those working on reports, who want to gather their books around them and "set". For these, ten o'clock in the evening comes much too soon. They are deep in point 2, or they are on the trail of the reasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDNIGHT OIL | 3/15/1923 | See Source »

...business pressure Colonel Wilgus will return to New York tonight so that he will be unable to confer personally with any men. Conferences will be held, however, tomorrow from 10 to 12 o'clock in the morning and from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon in the Quiet Room of the Union. Professor H. E. Clifford will confer with all men interested during the morning hours while Dean Hughes and Professor L. J. Johnson '87 will hold office hours in the afternoon. All members of the University who wish to avail themselves of this privilege may sign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COL. WILGUS TO SPEAK IN UNION | 3/14/1923 | See Source »

...mining town of Herrin, Illinois. There is a coal strike on and all the mines are shut down. It is peaceable, good-natured, loafing summer strike, with none of the strife and bitterness of the cold weather conflicts in the coal industry. At the Lester strip mine all is quiet. Then one day strangers begin to appear in the town. They come in motor trucks and by train. They are armed and wear police badges. Others follow them, and all at once the Lester mine commences a feverish production. For a day or two nothing happens, and then the mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Herrin Horror Retold | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...plan to be shipwrecked, choose a stout lifebelt and have your library waterproofed. The recent excitement in connection with the answers of various prominent men to the question, " What books would you like to have with you on a desert island?" has begun to quiet down. The chief impression left is one of bulk. Everything from the Encyclopedia to the Presbyterian Hymnal, the complete works of Shakespeare, and the dictionary have been proposed. Will Rogers favors the telephone directory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desert Islands | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

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