Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereupon did the ex-Premier flush with anger, despite the fact that he is a professor of mathematics, a critic of the Einstein theory. He dropped the big book with a bang and with 20 of his Socialist colleagues he dashed across the Chambre to storm the Royalist benches. Six uniformed sergeants-at-arms rushed forward to stop the threatened melée; one seized M. Painlevé around the waist, but it was useless; they were outnumbered. Blows, kicks, curses, cuffs rained in profusion...
Leading banks went to the help of the Government with a loan of a million dollars, which went some way toward stilling the storm. A "funded crown"- an imitation of the German rentenmark ("real value" mark)-was introduced by the Government to enable the money market to remain open in case there should be a further fall in the value of the currency...
...Johnson Immigration Bill (TiME, Oct. 8), introduced by Representative Albert Johnson of Washington, was reported by the House Immigration Committee, of which he is Chairman. At once a storm of opposition broke...
Yesterday's storm which in the morning poured tons of snow on the University and in the late afternoon attempted to undo its earlier work by pouring on tons more of rain, produced a number of new records on the books of the statisticians...
...storm, however failed to produce a run on the Cooperative Society for overshoes. This was in marked contrast to the records established in the other great storms of the year, that on the day of the Yale game, and that on January 3. "Business as usual," was the report of the salesforce there...