Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...union of the five French academies of arts and sciences, the oldest and most honorable being the Académie Française, established 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu. Members of the Academy are France's Immortals, their immortality guaranteed by government decree. Other academies are: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Académie des Sciences; Académie des Beaux Arts; Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques...
Diffident hintings from both Mexican government and Catholic hierarchy have suggested many points of possible compromise in the vexed problem of Mexico's religious laws (TIME, May 13, et seq.) Trustworthy seemed the report that the Vatican had agreed to recognize government ownership of Church property if the Church were made official guardian of the same...
...largest hotel in the U. S. is Hotel Stevens on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Fortnight ago its management, fearful of prohibition prosecutions, declined to serve the accessories of highballs, cocktails et al. Blacklisted were ginger ale, sparkling water, bowls...
...Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson's 1916 campaign) in the backfield. And on the substitutes' bench sat Thomas Cochran (Morgan partner and Director of General Electric) and Ralph Delahay Paine (author of College Years, The Head Coach, The Stroke Oar, Campus Days, et...
Popularly obscure may be Union Carbide & Carbon, not at all is Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, last week elected Union Carbide & Carbon's Board Chairman. Following the death (TIME, April 8 et seq.} of Myron Timothy Herrick, who was Honorary Board Chairman, George O. Knapp, Board Chairman, added Honorary to his title and Mr. Billings, member of the Executive Committee, moved into the Chairmanship. Not carbon, however, but horses provide the basis for Mr. Billings' popular fame. For to trotting (as distinguished from running) horses, Mr. Billings brought not only a devotion to the 'breeding and racing of fine horses...