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...proclamation which ended the conversion of paper currency into metal. But deflation ground on. In banks which failed to reopen was tied up some $4,000,000,000. Government economies to balance the budget reduced private spending. Unemployment rose to 13,000,000. The fear of riots and social unrest in Cleveland and Detroit kept Washington on nervous edge...
...Viceroy of India and (1924) First Lord of the Admiralty; of a heart attack; in London. A onetime Governor of Queensland and of New South Wales, he was appointed Viceroy while serving as captain of a territorial battalion in a remote corner of India. Faced with widespread native unrest, he, with the late Edwin Samuel Montagu, in 1918 sponsored the plan which brought limited home rule to India, has since been the keystone of British policy there...
...unrest in France grew before the Revolution, Marie Antoinette's extravagance got her another nickname-Mme Deficit. Partly because she was a foreigner she was more hated than her bumbling husband, who might have saved all their lives if he had agreed to run away in time. Too late Marie and Count Fersen persuaded him to escape. After they were captured at Varennes and brought back to Paris, Marie and her lover said goodbye for the last time. (He was killed by a mob in Sweden, in 1810.) To the bitter end Marie Antoinette played out the rest...
...November things were different. On the one hand losses in Germany's general election shrank the Hitler Party, still largest, from 230 to 195 Reichstag seats. On the other hand, popular hatred and unrest at the reactionary policies of the "Cabinet of Monocles" forced Chancellor von Papen to resign (TIME, Nov. 28). When Der Osaf* was summoned a second time to the Presidential Palace he was bidden to sit down by Der Reichspräsident for what Germans call a "conference of four eyes"-i. e. not even a secretary was present. Called in for a moment, State Secretary...
Speaking on a Lucky Strike radio hour last April before his nomination, Governor Roosevelt tried to personify the country's spirit of unrest in the Forgotten Man. Said...