Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Samuel Untermyer, 81, smart Manhattan attorney, orchid fancier and politico; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. Lawyer Untermyer made $75,000 in his 21st year, was a millionaire before he was 40, made his fame as counsel for the Pujo Committee in the Congressional investigation of the "Money Trust." Some of his biggest fees: $775,000 for merging Utah Copper with Boston Consolidated and Nevada Consolidated; a cool million for reorganizing the amusement empire of William Fox. For three witnesses whom he examined, he expressed professional admiration : the late Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, the late John D. Rockefeller...
...dark eyes glistening with excitement, Egypt's young King Farouk sped last week to the Nile Delta. There, on the site of ancient Tanis, Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg had discovered the tomb of Psousennes I, second King of the 21st Dynasty (TIME, March 4). Last week, with Farouk watching, the professor opened Psousennes' silver mummy case...
...Psousennes himself was not part of the haul. The damp climate of the Ni!e Delta had crumbled his mummified body entirely. All that was left of the second King of Egypt's 21st Dynasty was a little dust, a few bones...
...Apprenticed to the pirate king until his 21st birthday be reached, he began in 1880 (year of the first production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance) to exclaim in horror...
...capital from Thebes, 400 miles up river, to Tanis, 60 miles from modern Alexandria, close to the sea but not too close to suffer from pirates. The religious capital remained at Thebes, ruled by Amon's high priests. Smendes, sprig of a rich merchant family, founded the 21st (Tanis) Dynasty. His successor, Psousennes I, reigned 46 years...