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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Party leaders, itching to orate, faced the Government with 55 interpellations. Testily M. Briand refused to be interpellated, sought to force the Chamber to begin debating the budget, perhaps his one chance to keep the Deputies harmlessly preoccupied for some weeks. A score of Deputies of nearly as many parties rose to protest. Even blind Deputy Scapins was up in arms. Finally one Jean Montigny, obscure Radical Socialist demanded a gen eral debate on the Hague agreements, Young Plan and Rhineland evacuation...
Harvard will sponsor its Annual Interscholastic Cross Country Run, open to high schools and preparatory schools this morning at 10.30 o'clock. At that time the preparatory schools will race and the high school meet will begin a 11 o'clock. The high school course will be laid on the track around the circumference of Soldiers Field. Competitor will run around the field twice, a distance of the little over two miles; the prep school teams will have to run a distance of three and one half miles...
When you take into consideration the fact that the team made this record under a coach who was serving his first year, then you begin to understand what the latent possibilities of the Peninsula state boys really are. The particular coach in question is a certain Mr. Charles Bachman of Notre Dame fame. Like so many others of his tribe he purports to teach Rockne football, but unlike a great many others of his tribe he really seems to do it. The report is that he has equipped his team with an offense of which the great Knute himself might...
...love of spectacles, the participants in the stock market have entered the realm of the stimulati, and they have gone about it in such a way that Mr. Ziegfeld's male interludes are conspicuously unassuming in comparison. The bears rush in to start the ball rolling, and the debacle begins. One hundred million dollars are rushed to the scene and big business sits back to reassure the public that all is well. The next day, a record sale of sixteen million shares is recorded, and the journalists throw up their hands and begin to put their noses...
...temperance law.* After adjourning for one day to mourn Belgium's Delacroix, the bankers got back to their ballroom, soon rounded out a major portion of their labors by announcing that they had reached agreement in principle on the following attributes of the Bank for International Settlements (now begin ning to be called the "Young Bank"). Capital to be $100,000,000 as envisioned in the Young Plan. Board of Governors to comprise: first, six Governors ("Bix Six") representing the central banks of Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan; second, two U. S. Governors ("Big Two") elected...