Word: graveyard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers. One automobile was in the procession, that of Widow Stresemann. Led by grizzled President von Hindenburg, who left the sad line at the Foreign Office, other mourners stalked solemnly afoot to the graveyard...
...Calvary Cemetery, New York City. Two weeks ago he and some 300 fellow gravediggers stopped digging, struck for higher wages (TIME, Aug. 12). If Foreman Zasadzdniski had dug just one more grave, for himself, he would have been just in time. Last week he was shot dead in the graveyard as he lead strikers against a busload of strikebreakers...
Reserve Rate. Meanwhile Wall Street itself stirred uneasily. The early week market recovery proved to be largely whistling in the graveyard. As the week wore on and the tombstones stood out more clearly in the gathering darkness, the speculators stopped whistling and started to run. Directors of the New York Federal Reserve Bank held a lengthy and private meeting, after which, however, no change was announced in the rediscount rate...
...discovered that the grave of Richard, first Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Scottish statesman buried last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 20), had been opened during the night. A man was found asleep in a corner of the graveyard. Investigation identified him as the stranger who had momentarily halted Lord Haldane's funeral in London to protest. He explained that he was a spiritualist, said Lord Haldane was not dead, that he had a message for him. The man has been arrested...
...caucus room where some Congressmen were about to hold a hearing on a bill. Neither anarchists nor Anti-Salooners, these lobbyists were white-collar workers in the Government?meek, long-suffering driven to desperation (they said) by "genteel poverty " They told stories of death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee, to which they protestified was considering, among other pay raises the establishment of $1,500 as a minimum wage for any Federal fulltime job This increase the marchers favored...