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...shock of the disaster extended not only throughout the U. S. but to Europe. The Lord Mayor of London telephoned to Mayor John Daniel Marshall of Cleveland to express sympathy. The editors of the London Sketch and Daily News telephoned to Managing Editor Thomas Aaron Robertson of the Cleveland News to get the details of the tragedy for their papers...
...shop in Paris. I believe that her son - who was a real man with a man-sized viewpoint - would be genuinely pleased, no matter how many pairs of stockings she bought. Neither his morals nor her own were on such precarious foundations that they would totter under the shock of silk...
...some common shares of Hiram Walker, Inc. To Mr. Dyer's delight, the stock went up to 93⅞. He held on. Then the shares slid down to 66. Not until then did Mr. Dyer learn, he says, that Hiram Walker is a Canadian whiskey stock. His shock and grief at losing his money were exceeded only by his vexation at learning he had become involved in a liquor business. He sold his stock at a loss and, last week, wrote a letter of protest to the New York Curb Association, the market where Hiram Walker is listed. Loudly...
...bill was presented, Dr. Schacht merely roared at correspondents: "Neither the figures nor the conditions are acceptable to Germany! We would rather-far rather-remain under the Dawes Plan!" Later Germany's testy '"Iron Man" said that the allied proposals had struck him with "surprise and shock." Whereas the annual reparations payments under the Dawes Plan are $395,999,999, and whereas Dr. Schacht has been contending that Germany can pay no more than $332,000,000 yearly, the $28,000,000,000 bill works out at an average annual payment of some $500,000,000. The creditor...
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