Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naval reserve oil scandals (TIME, Feb. 4 et seq.) came to a head many weeks ago when the Senate Public Lands Committee discovered that ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall had received an unsecured loan of $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny about a year before Naval Reserve No. 1 was leased to one of Mr. Doheny's companies. Since then nothing of equal importance has come to light. The investigation has wandered far afield digging up new tidbits to set scandalous tongues wagging for another day, after which a new name or new names were discovered...
...electoral bill, recently introduced into the Senate (TIME, Dec. 17, et seq.), was passed by 141 votes; the entire Left section of the Senators abstaining because it was certain that the next Government would alter the law. Premier Poincare, champion of the bill, who is himself a Senator, taunted the Left by saying that they ought to have the courage of their convictions and vote against the bill, even if its consequences were to turn the Government out of office...
...Senate then turned its attention to the fiscal measures which Premier Poincare piloted through the dangerous waters of the Chamber of Deputies (TiME, Feb. 18, et seq.). While the discussions were proceeding, the franc was dropping, as was Premier Poincare's political prestige. Every effort was being made to steer the bill through with as little delay as possible in order that the Government might stay the tumble of the franc...
Peacemaker Breasted. Efforts were made to approach a settlement between the Egyptian Government, on the one hand, and the Countess Carnarvon and Howard Carter, on the other, in the dispute (TiME, Feb. 25 et seq.), over TutankhAmen's tomb. Dr. James Henry Breasted, distinguished American archeologist and historian, who has been in Egypt all Winter, along with many other savants, agreed to act as mediator and started negotiations, but without much optimism. Dr. Breasted, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago, is internationally respected as one of the two or three...
...Honduran Civil War (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq.) was reported to be getting worse, but no definite news was obtainable, except that at Tegucigalpa, the capital, disorders were rife and threats were made against foreigners and foreign property, even against the American Legation...