Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he thus apologized Premier Baron Strickland hoped he had ended his feud with the Bishops (TIME, May 19, 1930 et seq.), a feud so bitter that His Majesty's Government found it necessary to dissolve Parliament and to rule Malta for the past two years by royal decree. To hold an election was something Baron Strickland dared not do unless the Bishops would withdraw their pastoral letter of May 1930 warning Catholic voters not to vote for his Constitutionalist Party. The Bishops, having received the Premier's apology, withdrew their letter. Breathing easier, Baron Strickland announced an election which...
...Texas with a population little more than that of Houston, lives an Indian tribe called the Yawalapiti. Last summer the Yawalapiti had a colossal surprise, concerning which Vincent M. Petrullo of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, anthropologist of last year's Matto Grosso Expedition (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante) last week issued a monograph...
...Paris the firm of Lee, Higginson et Cie. last week announced a similar move but the affiliated London house, Higginson & Co., planned to continue. A new firm will be formed with outside capital. It will be called Lee, Higginson Corp. and will carry on a securities business in Manhattan, Boston and Chicago. It will also do a small deposit business and trade in acceptances. Being a corporation it can belong to no stock exchange. But while this company will perpetuate the name, last week the career of Boston's old partnership seemed ended...
...storekeeper and broadcaster of Shenandoah, to defeat Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart for the Republican Senatorial nomination in Iowa by 46,000-odd primary votes. A political neophyte. Nominee Field was handsomely supported by Iowa farmers to whom he sold seed, overalls, "gents' " hosiery, dress goods, prunes, coffee, hymnals et al, farmers to whom he begins his intimate radio talks from his station KFNF each day with: "Howdy, folks. This is Henry Field talking, folks. It's Henry himself...
...Reporter Miller interviews famous transients ("Slim" Lindbergh, Herbert Hoover, Babe Ruth et al.), how the silvery grunion come out of the sea with the spring tides to dance on their tails on the beach (TIME, May 9) are among other waterfront marvels. One moonlit night, when he was lying on a solitary beach, a baby sea lion came and nestled beside him for warmth and company. An hour they lay, then Reporter Miller trudged off to work, followed by the baby sea lion's lustrous, wondering eyes...