Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loew's State, continuous-"The Cameraman" with Buster Keaton starts Sunday. "Two Lovers" is there...
Instead he preached ruthless denationalization to Congress, last week, as the keynote of his whole new fiscal policy. Briefly this consists in postponing repayments to foreign creditors of the State, until drastic economies and efficient denationalization of the railways release funds to swell the National Treasury. Señor Montes de Oca declared that the Mexican internal budget is now safely balanced, and was able to state that Mexico's external creditors are still patient...
...they blow the smoke out as if they were at home. The company is distinguished: A. E. Matthews, the hero of a thousand stage affairs, is the detective who telephones to the cuckold, assuring him that in a week at latest he will have grounds for a New York State divorce. The cavorting adulteress is Mary Boland...
...State of Manhattan. Alan Grant Ogilvie, Reader in Geography at the University of Edinburgh, only child of Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie (chairman of the British Geological Survey Board), took New York City as the illustration of what can happen to a district happily situated geographically. New York's tides fluctuate only four to five feet.* That helps shipping. The terrain changes practically not at all. Travel routes naturally converge toward the city. He recommended that the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut cede land for the formation of a State of Manhattan. The natural Manhattan area...
Harriman-Soviet. There were days when it seemed that William Averell Harriman and his associates must lose their $3,450,000 put into a Soviet concession to export Manganese ore from the Chiatouri district of Russia. The Soviets had formed a state Manganese trust. But last week they announced an agreement to retain the Harriman money, to pay the Harriman an income guaranteed by 7% bonds...