Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comedy atmosphere is left, inconsequential and agreeable. Before the football player has married the secretary and escaped the trap the boss was laying for him, you have stopped paying attention without having stopped enjoying it. Director Bretherton arranged the story very smoothly. Betty Compson, and an unknown, dark-haired young man named Grant Withers play opposite each other. Assorted sound-shots: a crowd at a football game, a college dance where everyone sings, a stock ticker. Thunder (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lined and grey, smeared with oil, misty with sentiment under its visored cap, the face at the window...
Having pledged its honor to do so, Germany last week came to agreement with Belgium on the nettlesome Belgian Marks issue which for a time threatened to upset the Young Plan for adjusting Reparations (TIME, June...
...marks planted in their place. In 1918, with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young Plan. Germany's stiff-collared Hjalmar Schacht declared with equal insistence that he had no authority to do so. Chairman Owen D. Young saved his Plan by getting Herr Schacht and colleagues to promise that Germany would discuss marks with Belgium immediately after the Paris conferences were finished. Last...
...annuities shall be paid in cash (Belgian paper francs), in exactly the same manner as Young Plan annuities. In case of a Young Plan moratorium, the Germany-to-Belgium payments shall continue, though in this event payment in kind will be accepted...
Back to his capital at Nanking went satisfied President Chiang; up to his fortress at Mukden, Manchuria, 400 miles from Harbin went the "Tiger's Cub," young Chang, after helping to break the railroad treaty concluded by his father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both went to marshal armies against further trouble for both knew that seizure of the C. E. R. was open signal to a battle by which they hoped to crush the Russian domination of China's wealthiest region...