Word: railed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reparations Commission has been alarmed to learn that the Reichstag plans for next year a series of great industrial expenditures. Although the large profits of the new German rail-road system under governmental control have been instrumental in the payment on time of the war debts of 1925, 1926, and 1927, the Allies, as represented in the Reparations Commission are trying to discourage any additional investments by the Republic. The annual payments for the first four years increased only from 250,000,000 to 500,000,000 marks, while the payment for the fifth year and all subsequent years...
...sure he is the son of Otto H. Kahn who has been exploited in TIME rather an unusual number of times. He is a prominent citizen much in the limelight regarding charities, music and the reorganization of Rail Roads supposedly in successful operation, but all this is "by the way" not warranting his son on the cover while there remains hundreds of others whose appearance there would interest your subscribers and meet their greater approval, and furthermore not warranting so much space given over to a supposedly musical prodigy who has yet far to go. J write with...
...reading a newspaper. The man's fate seemed terrible. . . . But the man looked up, and smiled at Bellard as brightly as if he himself had been young." Bellard, the ambitious Bellard, never becomes a financier but he finds happiness because he loves a woman. So when his children rail at his failure, he goes out on the porch of his scrubby little house to read his paper. "A youth . . . looked up at him with an excess ot visible compassion. On this youth Bellard looked down and smiled, a luminous smile, a smile as bright as if he himself had been...
...year. There followed months of strife. Friends of the Hadley régime refused to accept him, called him "pro-German," made others suspect. He saw, heard, spoke no evil, swung his great bulk onto the platform, turned his back, hung his cane on the rail before him and made big music till the Cort Theatre was too small and his neighbors forgave him. Now at 55 he has the energy...
Touts & breeders, millionaires & jockeys froze with fear last week when Santrock, racehorse, crashed into the rail in a race at Jamaica, L. I. Santrock, blind in one eye, is dangerous. Bumping the rail he could not see, the horse pulled a blinker over the other eye. In total darkness he smashed terrified through the rail, turned somersaults, crashed through both rails on the backstretch. His jockey was thrown, badly bruised. Experts felt it lucky Santrock did not kill both himself and jockey...