Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Locarno Room, where the "Spirit of Locarno" was distilled into a pact which was to have made France and Germany friends (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), the new treaty was hailed by Foreign Secretary Eden as "a symbol of freely agreed partnership between the British and Egyptian peoples...
Died. Dave Barry, 47, the referee whose notorious long-count helped Gene Tunney successfully defend his championship against Jack Dempsey in 1927, and who was convicted in 1934 of swindling Chicago's Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank of $54,000 (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934); after long illness; in Chicago...
...credited with priority among broadcasters, it is still entitled to a place of distinction. . . ." On Aug. 31, 1920, the Detroit station announced returns of the primary elections in Michigan. On Nov. 2, 1920, the Pittsburgh station broadcast returns of the Presidential election. Westinghouse then continued with semiweekly broadcasts, until Dec. i, 1920 when daily programs commenced. Neither of the rivals can claim priority except as a commercial station. Lee de Forest broadcast the voice of Enrico Caruso from the top of the Metropolitan Opera in 1908. Other pre-War radiocasters were Dr. Frank Conrad of Westinghouse and Robert Gowen...
...morning of Dec. 22, 1935 there were two blind men in the U. S. Senate. That evening there was only one, Minnesota's bitter, blatant Thomas David Schall having died of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile. One evening last week the Senate lost its second blind man when Oklahoma's Thomas Pryor Gore, no New Dealer, finished fourth in a primary race for the Democratic nomination to his seat...
...musings on the editorial page of William Franklin Knox's Daily News. Last winter Columnist O'Brien made news by declaring that if his boss were elected President, he would of necessity follow the policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt once he got inside the White House (TIME, Dec. 2). Publisher Knox, then a good-natured candidate for the GOP nomination, was supposed to have been highly amused at this piece of intramural impertinence, let O'Brien's copy go through to press unedited. Last week Vice Presidential Nominee Knox's sense of political humor...