Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significant than arrivals of visiting royalty, trans-Atlantic flyers, Channel swimmers. Behind the proposal the City Government, long habituated to receiving great personages amid blazing publicity, squarely placed itself. A welcoming commission, including Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Railroader Patrick Crowley et al. was duly named. Students of public psychology waited to see what pitch of enthusiasm could be aroused in the populace by a public reception to a man whose triumph was mental, not physical...
...doing they do double harm to the nation. First they send our money abroad to America, a country which has just dealt a great blow to our export trade (TIME, April 8, et seq.) and second they take away work from Italian industries and laborers...
...Michigan in an intercollegiate game; and Miss Katherine N. de Nancrede, of Ann Arbor. Mich., in Ann Arbor, where Mr. Pond's college class was having its 50th reunion. Architect Pond, who prides himself and takes joy in his septuagenarian handsprings and back somersaults (TIME, May 16, 1927, et seq.), said (of his marriage) : "It's the first time I ever did it. I think I ought to be pardoned because of my youth...
Died. General W. Bramwell Booth, 73, at his home at Hadley Wood, England, where he had lain ill since his ousting from Salvation Army leadership by Sister Evangeline Booth and others (TIME, Jan. 14 et...
...orchestration is part of the film, so that the "emoting" of cinema's musical accompaniments is more exactly timed and appropriate than ever. Now that the talkies have come, more than 35,000 musicians who used to play in theatres are out of their jobs (TIME, May 27 et seq.). The orchestra of Loew's big New York Theatre, for example, was dismissed last fortnight...