Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance- Laymen who could not understand why the German mark should almost touch par last week while the German Government claimed to be weltering in an "unprecedented crisis," were enlightened by their bankers. They also learned why Germany, having outstripped all competition in exports, remains hard-pressed, unable to meet her obligations...
That in such circumstances the German mark should touch par last week, wise-acres attributed to speculative confidence springing from the fact that Germany had at last taken the Hoover-Laval "initiative" and seemed on the way to a new easing of her threatened fiscal position. But for the Dawes Committee the post-War mark could never have been stabilized on a gold basis. But for the Young Committee it could not have been kept there. But for bright hopes spurting from the proposed new committee the mark might not have hung high last week...
Returning to their usual form, a faculty team easily defeated a student aggregation in the annual touch football classic at the Business School yesterday. Led by Assistant Dean Madison Sayles '27, the instructors completely baffled the McCulloch Hall players who had won the inter-dormitory championship the day before. The final score...
...Whitney certainly did not invent Greenwich Village as the centre of New York's art life, but her coming there attracted public attention to it. From the first her studio was as full of painters and sculptors as sculpture. In the days when U. S. dealers would not touch the work of U. S. modernists with a forked stick, she turned two rooms of her studio into a temporary gallery and held exhibitions for her proteges. In 1914 the group that used to gather there formed the Whitney Studio Club: John Sloan, Robert Winthrop Chanler, Robert Henri, George Luks...
...want you to hire Paul Richards to represent me to handle the negotiations for my release. Pay him about $1,000 and I will pay you back. . . . Some one will get in touch with him soon...