Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possibility and the probability of France's returning to a gold standard currency, he confessed that it was impossible for the country to remain indifferent to the predominant tendency among other nations in that direction; but, said he, "many other things come first," and concluded that the time was not yet ripe for its consideration...
...telegrams, many from U. S. business men, swamped the post office and almost drowned the aged Field Marshal with congratulations. Chancellor Hans Luther was an early caller and, after a short interview, followed by a consultation with his colleagues, he announced in the Reichstag that his Cabinet would remain in office...
...decided that the Field Marshal's inauguration should take place on May 12. The President-elect appointed his only son, Major Oscar von Hindenburg, as his personal adjutant, and it was reported, but not confirmed, that he had asked Dr. Meissner, President Ebert's secretary, to remain in office. The aged soldier let it be known that he was opposed to any form of military pomp at his inauguration and that he would swear allegiance to the Constitution in civilian dress. He was, moreover, reported to have overruled his advisers by stating decisively that he would receive...
...Europe," and the conviction that he was mad. On one occasion, it is related, he was bounced out of a Belgrade music hall for flinging champagne bottles at the orchestra leader. On two occasions he was banished from the country, but each time he returned and was allowed to remain. It is now charged that he has been financing Republicans...
...needed. In addition, the current Bank of England statement showed £155.742,000 in bullion, and Britain's 1925 debt payment of $166,000,000 to our Treasury on War debt account has already been "discreetly accumulated." Thus the speculators who might doubt the ability of the British to remain on a gold basis, and accordingly be inclined to sell sterling "short," depressing its price in dollars, would be running into a stone wall. The sharp punishment administered to such short sellers of francs a year ago by the J. P. Morgan & Co. credit of $100,000,000 is still...