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...misfortunes. And September had showed a slight pick-up in employment. Bank failures were disappearing. Here & there factory chimneys began to smoke again. After many a false alarm business seemed in the act of struggling back to its feet. But there was abroad in the land a spirit of unrest such as the country had not known since the War. Then the spirit had been directed outward, against a foreign enemy. Now it was an internal trouble, the country contemplating itself...
...fact, the depression finds us sunk into a deeper hole than a while ago because of the psychological condition that is apparently the result of economic intimidation. The failure of disarmament conferences, the misbehavior of Japan, political unrest in the European 'powder-box,' and high tariff walls, all add to the uncertainty of our economic life. It is evident that fear has exaggerated the importance of these conditions, but they must be reckoned with, one at a time, before we shall be able to straighten the entanglements of international economics...
Paris. Twelve years of unrest, political squabbles, unemployment and riots had convinced him, a soldier since the age of puberty, that there could be neither peace nor security in Germany unless some way was found to re-establish the old German army and return to the form of government that Germans of his generation understand best: a monarchy. Smarter than most of the German military, he realized that neither of these things could come to pass unless France with her army of a half-million men was mollified. He assembled a little camarilla of army officers and aristocrats and last...
...them to circuses and horse races; with Plenty of ponies in the enormous stables and old Jer Donohughe's hounds to follow, it seems to the children that pleasures will never end. But along comes the War. Easter's father is killed. Follows Ireland's revolutionary unrest. Encircling Puppetstown, the lovely mountains Mandoran, Moncooin and the Black Stall are infested with Sinn Feiners. Aunts Dicksie and Brenda still keep open house, entertain the Army officers from nearby. One day one of them, motoring with Brenda, is ambushed, killed. On that same day the children, careless...
...Henry Chapman Swearingen, 63, of St. Paul, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; of heart disease; aboard a train near Hastings, Neb. As a result of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of 15 in 1925 "to study the causes of unrest in the denomination." Later he headed a commission investigating marriage, divorce and remarriage...