Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fixed by the Mellon-Berenger agreement. M. Poincaré's worry was this: that the U. S. would insist upon collecting the $400,000,000 War stocks debt, due this month, which will be refunded with the rest of France's debt to the U. S. as soon as the Mellon-Berenger agreement is ratified. The difference in annual payments is only the difference between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000 (the Mellon-Berenger scale) but to have to pay out $400,000,000 in a lump would boost the French budget by 20%. Mr. Mellon replied...
...Thousands of people cheered from the leafy, sun-shot shores. At the finish the Betsy Ann was about 1000 feet behind. A true sportsman, Owner Way promptly boarded the Chris Greene and handed over the Betsy Ann's elk horns. The Senator Cordhill, another Pittsburgh packet, soon challenged the Chris Greene. Rivermen looked for a return of their Golden...
...Bright's councilmen soon summoned, amended...
...presence of the Law, also his good-fellowship and good-citizenship, by buying the ticket, or several tickets. Not infrequently the citizen caps his gesture by telling the officer to keep the tickets, pass 'em around to his friends and "kiddies." The policeman, if not an imbecile, soon peddles the same tickets over again. Policemen being what they so often are, Manhattanites were not surprised last week to see the chief social body of the local force, the Police Glee Club, exposed as follows: For two concerts, in halls with a capacity of some 1,000 persons...
...pink petticoat in the course of a Scotland Yard Third Degree which caused the scandal to break. With a rousing, boyish cheer the Giggleswickers greeted great Viscount Byng of Vimy. At 65 some men have grown a little old, querulous and malapropian but Hero Byng would speak inspiring words. Soon his address climaxed as follows: "We funny old things look to you lads to be the future leaders of the country." . . . Made public last week were the majority and minority reports of the Extraordinary Tribunal constituted by joint action of both Houses of Parliament to determine whether...