Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gras after he saw geese being stuffed with food the better to fatten their livers. To visitors of untrained appetites Mr. Page explains such delicacies as East Indian poppadums, cheeses-marmalades, honeys from Syria, Portugal, Greece, England; Bombay duck; cox-combs in jelly; grouse pie; vintage marmalades; sole farcie en champagne. He explains that Fortnum & Mason anxiously awaits the Department of Agriculture's permission to sell rare soups, including those made from shark fins and kangaroo tails...
Died. Rev. Dr. Ozora S. Davis, 64, president emeritus of Chicago Theological Seminary, from 1908 to 1928 its president; of diabetes; on a train near Topeka, Kan., while en route from Los Angeles to Chi-cago...
George Arliss and wife, en route to further cinemacting in Hollywood, were two of 300 tourists marooned in Wellton, Ariz, (no population, mostly Mormon), when bursting dikes let a giant wall of water sweep a 250-yard-wide path through the town. One woman was drowned, 4,000 ft. of Southern Pacific rail torn away...
Reds. Ordered by the President of China into Kiangsi Province "to suppress the Reds" (TIME, Jan. 19), the Eighteenth Army Division was surrounded last week and disarmed. It promptly deserted en masse to the Chinese Red Army of Kiangsi which recently massacred with amazing ferocity 100,000 persons...
...overhead," in stead of through all the intermediate points. Next step will be the installation of still stronger transmitters at New York and Los Angeles for direct transcontinental conversation. But the primary purpose of the system is for communication between planes in flight and the ground stations nearest them en route. Radioman Hoover designed the system and supervised the installations until tuberculosis laid him low. But it was carried to completion by his No. 1 assistant and childhood friend, pink-cheeked, modest John Curtis Franklin, 26. "Jack" Franklin and "Herbie" Hoover, close neighbors, attended grade school together in Palo Alto...