Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring in young blood the G. A. R. elected as next year's Commander-in-Chief Edward J. Foster of Worcester, Mass., who, 15 at the end of the war, is now a mere 79. Cincinnati was selected for next year's encampment. Bustling with plans for the future, the Grand Army steadfastly ignored the fact that more than 1,000 of their number are dying every month...
...wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make men absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour, the club secretary. Baseman Shires was suspended from the White Sox. Charles Francis Adams Jr., Harvard student, son of the Secretary of the Navy, was arrested for speeding...
...expect to meet within a fortnight to grapple with the job of drafting a charter for Europe's new International Bank of (reparations) Settlements. Though not the largest bank in the world, the I. B. S. will have the world's broadest scope. It is the cornerstone of the Young Plan, which has now superseded the Dawes Plan. It will act as the clearing house through which Germany will pay reparations for 57 years on the instalment plan. It will progressively capitalize future payments in advance by selling reparations bonds secured on Germany's promise to pay the full allotted...
...board, Sir Charles Stewart Addis, sire of six sons, seven daughters. A leading director, of the great Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Sir Charles has interests throughout ; Asia, is chairman of :the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank of London. He succeeded the late Baron Revelstoke as junior British representative of the Young Plan Committee (TIME, April...
John Pierpont Morgan, who was in Scotland last week, and Owen D. Young, who was in Canada, advised M. Moreau by cable whom to invite from the U. S. Europe today knows better than to expect the President of the U. S. or Federal Reserve Bank Governor Roy Archibald Young to take such responsibility. Messrs. Morgan and Young went to the original Young Plan Conference (and dominated it) backed only by their enormous prestige...