Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger and invective they learned he had been a prizefight, cabaret and theatre promoter; an actor playing the heavy in Ten Nights in a Barroom; a Florida...
Hidalgoans do not smile in the sun. They swear audibly, extensively and persistently and R. B. Creager and the Texas Tammany boys (A. Y. Baker et al) are the subject of their most virulent profanity...
Rampant upon the tariff battlefield still strode the Senatorial armies (TIME, Sept. 30 et ante). But from the heavens on the Republican side came a portentous rumbling. Battle between the lines ceased as the Republican chieftains harkened to awful words from the White House, even as the chieftains at Troy used to attend whenever Zeus spoke...
Some of the books banned as objectionable by the customs employees are: Casanova's "Memoirs", Balzac's "Les Contes Drolatiques", Rabelais' "Oeuvres", Margueritte's "La Garconne", and "Prostituee", Marguerite de Navarre's "Hentameron", Longas' "Daphnis et Chloe", Galland's "Les Milles et Une Nuits", Rousscau's "Confessions", and Boccaccio's "Decameron...
...Boston Herald and Traveler. Trustees of International Paper Co., whose purchase of these and other newspapers had excited great outcry because I. P. Co.'s owner is International Paper & Power Co. and because power companies' press activities have lately been viewed with wide alarm (TIME, April 22 et seq.), authorized the sale of I. P. Co.'s 50% stock interest in Boston Publishing Co.-a development long rumored (TIME, June...