Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ostensibly set out to investigate a "wholesale buying" corporation called the Decimo Club, Inc., and had told his State the Decimo Club was perfectly legal after receiving from it covertly a $25,000 fee. Other queer firms that Mr. Reading kept out of the hands of the law paid him $35,000 more...
...post in a private bank. Last week the mere report that he had threatened to resign as Governor of the Bank of France caused consternation among politicians and appeared to have swayed the iron judgment of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare himself. The question at issue was whether to set up the now virtually stabilized paper franc on a gold basis. To this problem M. Moreau brings strictly practical knowledge acquired during an entire lifetime spent in the Treasury and allied services, latterly as Director General of the State Bank of Algeria, and since 1926 as Governor of the Bank...
Such unrepentant imposture, although common enough, was not practised last week in Paris, when a banquet consisting chiefly of horse, donkey and mule meat was set before three members of the famed Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Poincar. The three, all by way of being gourmets, *were: Paul Painlev, mathematician, twice Prime Minister (1917; 1925); Minister of Agriculture Henri Queuille; and Minister of Commerce Maurice Bokanowski...
Last week, the students of the Experimental College issued a booklet telling all about the first year. It breathed enthusiasm: "minds set free," "intellectual success." Dr. Meiklejohn added a cautious note: "the College is too young to be judged." But, said he, "As a venture in friendship the College has succeeded beyond all question...
...noted sons, Minnesota's tiny Rochester may boast her famed surgeons, the brothers Mayo, but New York's Rochester answers with Cameraman George Eastman and is content. Good music and much education contribute to its civic culture; civic cleanliness is upheld by the barbers and laundrymen, who set aside one week of each year to ply their trade for the city's children, free of charge. In 1927, the barbers offered up 4,000 free haircuts on the altar of municipal tidiness...