Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the point of view of the Italian Fascist, parliamentary government is on its last legs, for neither in England or France has any party a majority; even in America the insurgents or the farm bloc could put the Senate in an analagous position...
...when the Salvation Army Council elected Edward John Higgins as General (TIME, Mar. 11 ) . Salvationists Bramwell and Evangeline had another sister, Lucy Booth-Hellberg, 61, stationed at Stockholm, where were her home and her husband's grave. Last week Lucy Booth-Hellberg, appointed to a station in South America, East, by General Higgins, sailed. Before she went she told 2,000 Salvationists meeting in London how little she wanted to go, explained that she had made her decision at her husband's grave, had written her letter of submission on his tombstone. Cried she: "My last home...
...fetching on the Calcutta bazaar, how great were the exports of finished burlap from local mills. For Indian jute dealers were aware that last week in Manhattan had opened the New York Jute and Burlap Exchange, knew that 11/16 of the burlap exported from Calcutta goes to North America. Made from the fibrous stalk of a hemlock-like plant, jute has been for 100 years the prime material for gunny sacks, cordage and heavy wrappers. Trading on the new exchange will be conducted around posts for each of the commodities handled, which will include raw jute, burlap, hemp, sugar bags...
...having at its coöperation the entire facilities of Johns Hopkins medical organization. Dr. Welch. One of Dr. Wilmer's patients is William Henry Welch, 79, son of a doctor-son of a doctor-son of a doctor. The profession considers that "no man now living in America has exerted greater influence upon the course of medical education in this country, and hence indirectly upon the course of medical thought and practice" than has Dr. Welch. Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876 on money bequeathed by Johns Hopkins (1794-1873), Quaker merchant of Baltimore. Hopkins left instructions...
...nearby Cleveland and Dayton, in department stores, landing fields, newspapers, advertising agencies, factories. One of the largest single employers of Antioch brawn and brain is General Motors Corp. Last year General Motors supplied positions at Oakland Motor Car Co. (Pontiac, Mich.), Frigidaire Corp. (Dayton), Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America (Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.), General Motors Proving Grounds (Milford, Mich.), Cadillac Motor Car Co. (Detroit), Chevrolet Grey Iron Foundry (Saginaw, Mich...