Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enigmatic Morgan. The foremost financier on this round Earth favored the Second Dawes Committee, last week, with an address lasting only a few seconds. At an early session of the Committee, when the other delegates each made succinct 10 minute speeches outlining the policies of their governments, Mr. Morgan rose, indicated his U. S. colleague Mr. Young, and said...
What looms ahead? Last week as Mr. Morgan sat on the Second Dawes Committee, he was undoubtedly pondering a fiscal operation beside which the half-billion-dollar loan to France and England would seem picayune. This project is spoken of as "Commercializing" the German reparations debt. By this is meant (TIME, Oct. 29) that long term "reparations bonds" may be issued against the resources of the German State, sold to the public, and the money used to pay off at once Germany's debt to the Powers...
...task too titanic even for the House of Morgan. Collaboration would have to be sought from perhaps half the great financial houses of the world. Even then the project might prove unfeasible-possibly for political reasons. However, it is expected that in about two months' time, the Second Dawes Committee will have worked through its other problems to the point of deciding whether "commercialization" is practicable...
Presto! High-pressure sold 60,000 pianos in 1927. So-called "American Methods" seemed triumphantly vindicated -until they were tried out a second year. Last week's survey showed that Germans bought only some 28,000 pianos...
Half distracted by these thoughts Signora Anna prayed, fervently, wildly, to the Mother of God. Sometimes such prayers are efficacious. Last week Signora Anna's midwife was hastily called in a second time, detected an infant she had not previously noticed, assisted the belated bambino into the world, and triumphantly announced...