Word: english
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moulin Rouge in Paris, police quelled a riot of Frenchmen incensed at the discovery that they had paid good francs to see The Fox Movietone Follies? in English...
...Devil while Paris and Berlin gaped simultaneously at The Broadway Melody. In the French chamber arose Deputy Gaston Gerard last week to exclaim: "In the domain of the cinema we have become virtual tributaries to American productions. Americans already hail [the talkies] as a vehicle for spreading the English language over the world. It is an immense and implacable effort for intellectual colonization that threatens...
...British investors a prime indication of safety is the presence of "good names" in a company. Last week a vast English company which, with its affiliates, represents a capitalization of nearly $500,000,000 and has assets scattered throughout the world, passed dividends upon both the preference and common stocks. This alone, was a shock to London businessmen. But even more shocking were whispers of Scandal about the best of the company's "good names...
...British public which recently viewed the New York market break with great and garrulous glee, Royal Mail's tumble was merely another incident in the series of misfortunes which have over taken the English investment market. Although in the U. S. prices broke, earnings of U. S. companies have so far been maintained.But in England poor trade conditions coupled with belief that the Labor government is financially incompetent, seem to indicate the culmination of the long established drift of the London market away from its position as world's leader. "Home Rails," long considered a prime investment, have seen...
...Isle of lona, Hebrides, the dead body of Miss Emily Farnario, 30, English mental-telepathist, daughter of an Italian surgeon, was found nude, reclining on a great cross that had been cut in 'the turf...