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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with a policy tried out last fall, the Treasury last week sent forth word asking holders of Third Liberty Loan bonds to offer them directly to the Government for cash through Federal Reserve Banks. The owners of the bonds may set the price at which they offer them, and the Government will buy those offered at the lowest prices. In this way it is planned to invest about $100,000,000 of the sinking fund for public debt retirement. Proposals must be made before March 10, and payment will be made on March...
...usual, Premier Mussolini found occasion to pronounce a decisive "last word" upon the week's developments concerning the Italian Alto Adige, formerly the Austrian (Southern) Tyrol (see AUSTRIA). Cried Il Benito to correspondents...
Late despatches movingly depicted the grief of Sir Basil Zaharoff at his wife's death. It appears that for 36 hours he allowed no word of it to be announced. When the funeral was held at the Church of St. Charles, Monte Carlo, he hobbled in through a side door, "gasping, broken, twitching, scarcely able to walk in his gout slippers...
...auction room of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, the sale of Viscount Leverhulme's furniture, his rare porcelains, his tapestries and paintings (TIME, Feb. 22), went steadily on. In the past fortnight the auctioneer has applied that word "sold" to the following objects, among others...
Henry John was religious. For more than 20 years he was superintendent of a Methodist Sunday School, although he had been brought up a strict Lutheran. His parents wanted him to become a minister and this religious attitude he kept throughout his life. How sore his heart when word was brought to him that smart-Alex Pittsburgh saloonkeepers had wanged out a ribald ditty at his expense. Nigger-prancers,* bum- mers, street sheiks, tenderloin riff-raff were chanting all over Pittsburgh, all over...