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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interior André Tardieu admit that during the parade, the bland face of Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had been twice slapped by an outraged woman. Minister Tardieu assured the honorable deputy that the face of M. Chiappe had not so been slapped. Veteran Dormann declared he had seen it with his own eyes. He suddenly shouted: "As a Deputy, as a war veteran, as a man. I have been insulted! I demand an official retraction...
...village of Palmagyu, Rumania, in the Transylvanian Alps, peasants stood in idle groups last week and talked in proverbs of the devil and money. Had they not just seen what the money devil could do to a strong man? Ion Gerghuta, their neighbor and a thrifty farmer, had come back from the town of Kronstadt with his crop money?...
...found what he wanted in Highland Park. Friends heard he was going to build himself an airplane. Marouf will be repeated at Ravinia for Tenor Chamlee who recently scored a successful Paris debut in that opera. Another Highland Parker is Mme. Yvonne Gall, fresh from Paris. She will be seen and heard in Paul Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bhie...
...help organize and finance special stabilization corporations among farmers to purchase surplus farm products from glutted seasonal markets and hold them in storage pending better prices. In the past such large-scale grain corporations on private capital and under private control have failed. It remains to be seen whether federal cash and supervision can make them successful. Critics of the new farm relief legislation predict that the Federal Farm Board will loan large sums to such corporations which in turn will buy in surplus commodities on a falling price market, be forced to sell them at a still lower price...
...lava cloud could be seen from Munich but not from Berlin, which is the usual scene of up-to-the-minute German novelties. "Never mind," wrote a Berlin wag. "We have a nice big cloud of our own this week ? all the way from Egypt...