Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daugherty-Miller trial for alleged conspiracy in the transfer of $7,000,000 worth of stock of the American Metal Co., seized during the War, back to the Merton family original owners (TIME, Sept. 13 et seq.) entered its fourth week the Government concluded its case. The crux of testimony offered was that brought out by U.S. Attorney Emory R. Buckner, who traced $40,000 worth of bonds given by Herr Merton to the late John T King to the Midland National Bank of Washington Court House, Ohio, of which Mal S. Daugherty, the onetime (1921-24) Attorney General...
...family whose industries make everything from dynamite to dainty ladies' hand-mirrors. To the Senate they have sent T. Coleman du Pont, Republican. The other tribe bears the name of Bayard. Many centuries ago, its forefathers sprang from the loins of Chevalier de Bayard, that knight sans peur et sans reproche. In the U.S. the Bayards have been in the Senate with surprising regularity since the days of Thomas Jefferson. Now there sits as the colleague of Senator du Pont, one Thomas F. Bayard,* Democrat...
Rain poured. Nineteen guns boomed. The Empress of Scotland docked at Quebec last week bearing Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, the new Governor General of Canada (TIME, June 21 et...
...week representatives of the unrecognized de facto government of Nicaragua and the militant leader of Nicaragua's revolutionaries, General Jose Maria Moncada. President Chamorro of Nicaragua conveyed through his representatives the terms of an armistice which he was willing to conclude with the embattled revolutionaries (TIME, May 17 et seq.). General Moncada accepted the terms of armistice with slight modifications. Loomed a peace conference under U. S. auspices, at which Usurper Chamorro, and the "revolutionaries" (really "counter revolutionaries") may compose their differences...
Titta Ruffo, famed Metropolitan Opera baritone: "I was violently attacked last week by L'Impero of Rome, a semi-official Fascist news organ. L'Impero recalled that the murdered millionaire socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 23, 1924, et seq.) was my brother-in-law, and accused me of anti-Fascist leanings similar to his. Italians resident in the U. S. were called upon to boycott my performances and to treat me with violence...