Word: crownes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scratch. In Italy a similar militia, for boys only, called Balilla* has been formed by the inventor of this apt scheme for bending twigs of youth, Signor Benito Mussolini. In Belgrade Dictator-King Alexander christened his balilla "The Hawks of Jugoslavia," dubbed his bonny six-year-old eldest son, Crown Prince Peter, "The Eternal Chief of Hawks...
Trees to make this paper grow for the most part on Crown land, land technically belonging to King George, but whose administration and revenue are in the hands of the provincial governments. Greatest Canadian papermaker is the U. S.-owned International Paper & Power Co. This gargantuan corporation controls under long-term leases, or owns outright, forest land equal in area to New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Despite the enormous consumption of newsprint in the U. S. and Canada, paper production is still greater. Prices are low. For the past year the I. P. & P. and its smaller competitors have been...
Montreal rumors were to the effect that Premier Taschereau, backed by Ontario's Ferguson, had strongly hinted that unless I. P. & P. was willing to raise its price, Crown land leases would be canceled, timber land reallocated to Canadian pulp mills now shut down...
...following the silhouette of Christ Church tower the architects have not departed from present-day taste in any way. The Dunster House tower is as good Georgian as the Tom tower is good Gothic. They have achieved something which will crown the mass of the building beautifully. The one on Lowell House is of course a modification of that on Independence Hall, but in Dunster the octagonal tower of the Italian Renaissance is the chief influence...
...British leading man in The Road to Dishonor. Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins, wife of the newly inducted President of the University of Chicago (TIME, Nov. 25), had her appendix out in Chicago. Mrs. Theodore Hoover, sister-in-law of President Hoover, had her appendix out in Palo Alto, Calif. Crown Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark, visiting London, had an abscess in his throat lanced, was unable to go to Sandringham to see his second cousins George V & Queen Mary. Col. & Mrs, Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Arizona air-explorations were told of in the December World's Work...