Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such payments are the keystone of the Dawes Plan and offer the only possible way that Germany can transfer credits so huge that their movement, if made in gold, would disrupt international exchange. The frauds detected, last week, amounted to giving "short measure" to the reputed extent of $12,000,000. To understand how this was done, recall the normal method of paying reparations in kind...
...prestige in the country's medical affairs that once was Cincinnati's is speedily returning. An important medical centre has developed. Last week Colonel William Cooper Procter (Procter & Gamble detergents) strengthened this Cincinnati movement. He gave $2,500,000 to the Children's Hospital for research work in pediatrics. Previously he had given $1,250,000 to that hospital. His business partner, James N. Gamble recently gave $1,500,000 to Cincinnati Christ Hospital...
...cabinet of the Nanking "Nationalist Government" there resigned, last week, two leading statesmen: 1)-Foreign Minister Dr. C. C. Wu, who represented South China at the Paris Peace Conference; and 2) Finance Minister Sun Fo, son of the late "sainted" Dr. Sun Yat-sen who founded the Nationalist movement...
...house, portended. All those present were "Wets." They called themselves the Moderation League, Inc. They would not tell precisely what they talked about. All they would say was that the Moderation League Inc., without superseding Captain Stayton's A. A. P. A., would promote a national non-partisan movement to clarify Prohibition's place in 1928 election platforms...
...Canton Jay C. Huston. Cabled he: "Control of Canton was seized by so-called workers and soldiers, numbering about 5,000. The police were disarmed. . . "The rebels, who were comprised of the riffraff of the city, linked themselves up with certain robber bands from the country districts. "The movement, which was reported as frankly Communistic, was led by Russians. . . . For 48 hours the city was given over to general looting and large sections were burned. "Troops were rushed back to Canton and succeeded in crushing the rabble revolt about 11 a.m. on the morning of the the third...