Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patronage of Napoleon I and his successors, pawnbroking in France has made steady, philanthropic strides. No Crédit Municipal can be founded without the assent of the President of the Republic. Those at Grenoble and Montpellier are so heavily endowed that their interest charge to needy borrowers is zero. In Paris the Crédit Municipal has its seat in an 18th Century palace, maintains a garage in which 2,000 motor vehicles can lie in pawn, chiefly during the winter months when their thrifty owners see no sense in gadding about. Because everything pawned in France is automatically...
...arranged by League of Nations statesmen (see p. 11 )-last year's Chaco "Christmas Truce" was arranged by Pope Pius XI-battling Paraguay pressed her recent supreme offensive to capture Bolivia's Fort Munoz. Whether Munoz. was captured just before or just after the truce's zero hour was a question in hot dispute last week. It may well start Bolivia and Paraguay fighting again, as they have fought off & on for 50 years. Munoz proved to be a very comfortable fort. Females, who made it home for Bolivia's heroes, numbered more than 150. There...
...eccentric Dictator who insists on being War Minister and sums up his political credo in such characteristic Pilsudski snorts as "Parliament! What is Parliament? A prostitute!" Parliament, under the Constitution released in draft form by the Pilsudski Colonels last week, will be not a prostitute but a political zero. The President of Poland, now a Pilsudski-picked puppet named Ignacy Mosciclti, will become in effect Dictator, with power to: 1) appoint the Chief Justice, the Premier and the Commander-in-Chief of the Army; 2) dissolve Parliament and veto its acts without recourse; 3) designate one of two candidates...
...mind to give a festive luncheon before the Yale game and announced to the members of his house that any who so chose were more than welcome to come. Although he should have known better, he was disappointed to find at the appointed hour a total of zero guests assembled to partake of his hospitality. Only by urgent messages to his intimate friends with Yale guests was he able to gather enough people willing to nibble at his offerings. --Yale Daily News...
...COURSE 224 DEGREES TRUE NINE TENTHS OVERCAST AT 1,000 FREQUENT SQUALLS WIND ZERO...