Word: savely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastern Europe unusual quiet is a sure sign of political activity. Early last week the streets of Bucharest were still as a Puritan Sabbath. Shop fronts were steel-shuttered, cafes were deserted save for an occasional worried waiter, moodily wiping the empty table tops. Foreign correspondents, smelling trouble, gravitated toward the Bucharest telegraph office. It was closed, and not going to open. As the day advanced, groups of soldiers in steel helmets and khaki appeared on the street corners, leaning against lamp posts, smoking cigarets when their officers were not looking...
Holders of New Orleans traction bonds went into Federal Court, asked for an injunction against the trolley union to save their property from further destruction...
...save the King...
...save this realm...
...Chamber of Deputies, which was then more sternly than ever faced with the necessity of paying 400 millions on August 1, or ratifying the Mellon-Berenger agreement, or else repudiating the entire debt. That would blow France's financial credit beyond even the power of Morgan to save it. Ratification of the Mellon-Berenger agreement became more imminent...