Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...territorial expansion, he obediently voted every increase in Germany's Imperial army. Throughout the War he was one of the Kaiser's most devoted followers, defending indiscriminate submarine warfare against the attacks of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. With the Armistice and the disastrous Treaty of Versailles a sudden change came upon him. Always acutely practical he realized that right or wrong in the War, Germany was beaten, that her only hope of salvation lay in making friends with her former enemies. After a brief interval as German Chancellor, 1923 found him Germany's Foreign Minister, a position...
...controlling 829,500 acres. Yet despite its dominance, Cuba Cane suffered with all the other Cuban producers when their tremendous output was joined by new peacetime crops from Europe. For many a year Cuba Cane has stumbled on, always seeming on the verge of either collapse or sudden success. But coming on Jan. 1, 1930, is an obstacle no company in poor shape could meet-the maturity of $25,000,000 debentures. To surmount this obligation, a complete reorganization was planned, chief feature of which is that present debenture holders will receive new debentures plus a bonus of common stock...
...much blame should not be laid upon Harvard men for pleading guilty to the indictments of the Vassar Miscellany, quoted elsewhere in these columns. Coming from an institution so much less physical, it is not at all surprising that the sudden metamorphosis to Poughkeepsie life should daunt all but the boldest or best conditioned of males...
...This sudden cessation of business activity was caused by a Federal investigation. Several weeks ago Samuel Reinstein, New York white slave racketeer, was murdered in Boston by a rival gang. A U. S. attorney, investigating the killing, disclosed that 50 murders in Massachusetts and neighboring states had been traced to white slave rings operating unmolested in Boston. Raids on the South End district were begun, primarily to trace the Reinstein killers...
Last week as the warriors of the Tariff assembled in the Senate Chamber, above their heads came a sudden whir of wings. Looking up they beheld a pigeon gliding overhead. For a moment the ominous bird alighted above the battle on the edge of the Press Gallery. An eager correspondent snatched at it. The bird soared from his grasp leaving in his hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah...