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It was Premier Flandin who kicked Governor Moret upstairs. The majority of the stockholders of the Bank of France, more than half of whom own only one or two shares, have almost no authority, almost no function except to receive dividends. They receive a yearly dividend of some 300 francs...
"The advocates of devaluation would lead the franc to zero. They would ruin all France and finally ruin that famous French woolen stocking that people abroad sometimes laugh at because they are envious of it. Perhaps someone will say to me that the currency, once devalued, can be restored again...
The first suggestion of comfort came in 1907 when corset-makers hit upon the idea of "anchoring" the corset to the stocking by means of the hose supporter. With little change the corset pinched and pressed its way through the War into the "corsetless era," which was not corsetless at...
Infection from San Francisco's general strike spread far and fast. It leaped up the Pacific Coast to Portland where a general walkout was tentatively called for Wednesday. Portlanders got a foretaste of San Francisco's plight when its waterfront strike dammed fuel oil and gasoline supplies to a trickle...
To the chapel went the Roosevelt family and sat in the front surrounded by families of graduating "Grotties." President-Emeritus Lowell of Harvard made the "prize address." Dr. Peabody distributed 23 ordinary diplomas, one of which went to John Aspindall Roosevelt. 18 years old and 6 ft. 3 in. in...