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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With her husband Eugen Jan Boissevain, she sought the Maine woods, there to recuperate from long ill-health, to work quietly on the book for The King's Henchman (TIME, Aug. 30). Two months ago, the couple disappeared from their tiny cottage, were seen no more in Maine...
Died. Wilfred, "The Royal Rabbit" (TIME, Aug. 30), gobbled by a stray dog which broke into Wilfred's pen near Bolton Abbey, the estate of the Ninth Duke of Devonshire. The King-Emperor had purchased one-half of Wilfred for ten shillings from Bob Tomlinson, the local rector's son, and presented this fractional interest to Bob's sister Kathleen who already owned the other half of Wilfred...
Thus with clear, direct inclusiveness runs the central clause of a new treaty between the U. S. and Panama. Portions of the treaty leaked out (TIME, Aug. 9); but only last week was the full text released at Washington...
International President Thomas F. McMahon of the United Textile Workers, who took charge of the strike last summer, after "Communist" Leader Albert Weisbord had withdrawn (TIME, Aug. 23), had dealt conciliatingly with Vice President Charles F. Johnson of the Botany Mills. They agreed that the workers might organize, provided they entertained no Communistic taint; that collective bargaining would be recognized; that no outside help would be hired until all strikers were placed; that the open shop system would prevail; that future disputes would be put to arbitration. Their principals-employers and workers approved their agreement last week; and more than...
...Admiralty announced that the inflexible rule forbidding the presence of a female on a British ship of war is to be relaxed when T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York set out on the Renown in January to dedicate the new Australian capital Canberra (TIME, Aug. 23). With the Royal Duchess will travel two ladies in waiting: Lady Cavan and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour. Upon their heads Marine Jonah Uden will practice his art as the first naval coiffeur...