Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million-dollar libel suit last week threatened Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt just when her bank balance was beginning to fatten on the proceeds of her series of newspaper articles on "The Inside of Prohibition" (TIME,, Aug. 12 et seq.). In an instalment which flayed the meddlesomeness of the Anti-Saloon League, she trod on the tender toe of a onetime Prohibition enforcement chief at St. Louis...
Events at the Hague Conference were in such a desperate snarl last week as Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden continued bickering for a bigger piece in the reparations "sponge cake" (TIME, Aug. 12 et seq.), that progress could best be traced in terms of personages...
...nearly a hundred million dollars-not to mention the ancestral Liechtenstein Art Gallery in Vienna, famed as "the most valuable private collection in Europe." Last week, with nothing to conceal for the first time in at least a generation, Prince Franz von und zu Liechtenstein. Due de Troppeau, Prince et Due de Jägerndorf, celebrated in his castle by conferring upon his twice-wedded wife the proud title "Countess of Vaduz...
After smouldering for a month the Russo-Chinese crisis (TIME, July 22, et seq.) was flaring up again. At Moscow, telegrams from Soviet commanders on the Siberian-Manchurian frontier complained to Dictator Josef Stalin of provocative and belligerent raids by Chinese soldiers over the Russian frontier. Plainly the field commanders on both sides were spoiling for a declaration of war. But President Chiang and Dictator Stalin are both cool, calculating...
...broke the "underlying cause" would be China's banishment of Russians employed on the Chinese-Eastern railway jointly owned by China and Russia (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Moscow denies Nanking's charge that the Russian employes had been hatching "terrorist plots...