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...Next both pickaxmen whanged the "non-postponable annuities.'' a rock which loomed huge when France declared that the Young Plan must be preserved intact and that what was "non-postponable'' in the specific language of the Young Plan must be paid to France and kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover to Laval! | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Fragments remaining to be cracked after this big rock was split were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover to Laval! | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...final rock pickaxed last week was that of German reparation "payments in kind." payments made not in money but in goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover to Laval! | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...woman and two men, all of them in well-padded containers, have gone over Niagara Falls and come up alive.* All of them went over the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side. No man ever lived through a ride over the rock-bottomed American Falls. Yet last week a stray police dog blundered over the American side and came out to shake himself on the bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Less & Less Gunning | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...street and becoming involved in theological argument, became so annoyed that he promised to perform a miracle: he would cause the Garden of Eden to be transported wherever the Anglican parson wished, at precisely 11:30 the following night. Next evening they met; the parson chose Bass Rock, a little island some 20 miles away; Father Malachy prayed; the deed was done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cavalry, C. S. A.* | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

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