Word: abouting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Busybodies in neighboring villages soon spread rumors about the firm of Fazekas, Csordas & Co. The rumors crystallized. Letters containing definite particulars of numerous deaths in the village of Nagyrev were sent to local police offices, finally to the district prosecutor of Szolnok. By his orders the body of an unpopular...
In Peshawar, British India, anyone possessed of the sum of 6¢ could obtain a graphic idea of what King Nadir meant by "severe punishment." Photographs were on view, at 12 annas a peek, showing the execution of Bacha Sakao, the Water Boy Bandit King (TIME, Nov. 11). Contrary to official...
Japan the Peacemaker. Almost irrelevant to the real Chinese situation last week were screeching headlines about appeals to President Hoover and the League of Nations by Nationalist Foreign Minister C. T. Wang (Yale, 1911). In his own capital Mr. Wang was credited with having utterly bungled the Chino-Russian imbroglio...
Last week unexpected aid came to the Hoover industrial program from a bull outside the herd. Irving T. Bush,* head of Brooklyn's mammoth Bush Terminal, announced the completion of three years of negotiations in the formation of Bush Service, Inc., U. S. A. The new company combines the facilities...
Having arrived at the convention, Sir Henri made what is reputed to be his first formal speech, talked on "Common Sense in the Oil Industry," said no more about his "no compromise" position. Said he: "The idea that it might be possible that the 'collecting department' [that which supplies the...