Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York returned last week from their Australian tour (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.), in the course of which they inaugurated the new Federal Capital of Australia at Canberra (TIME, May 16), and circumnavigated the globe...
...Herrick, no teetotaler, may have visited the 29-foot bar, danced in the 1,000 square foot ballroom by Sue et Mare, or shot at clay rabbits in the shooting gallery...
What M. Vandervelde did last week was to announce that he will shortly preside, at Brussels, over the unveiling of a statue to the late murdered Italian Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 23, 1924, et seq.). This murder has been laid by many antiFascists directly to the instigation of Signor Mussolini. Consequently, last week, M. Vandervelde's announcement caused Il Duce such annoyance that he recalled to Rome the Italian Ambassador at Brussels, the Marquis Negrotto di Cambiaso...
...editor of the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Française, escaped last week from the Prison Santé. He went there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him to submit to arrest (TIME, June 13 et seq.). It was a group of these keen-witted, although sometimes foppishly clad, Royalists who filched M. Daudet deftly out of jail last week and spirited him into hiding...
Three U. S. Senators. The unfolding progress of the Chinese Nationalist advance upon Peking (TIME, March 28 et seq.) loomed with such vital portent last week that three U. S. Senators were busy in China, making personal investigations on the spot. Senator Hiram Bingham, Connecticut Republican, pushed his tour of China (TIME, May 9) to the extreme of venturing 400 miles up the great river Yangtze, last week into the very heart of "Chinese Communist" territory. Since he traveled on a U. S. warboat, the Senator was effusively greeted at Hankow by the "Communist" Foreign Minister Eugene Chen (TIME...