Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explained Citizen Coolidge: "We needed more room to entertain our friends suitably. Also the place will make our dogs more comfortable." Citizen Coolidge did not mention the opportunity he will now have to cart out of storage the 19 truckloads of furniture, souvenirs, bibelots, books, cowboy hats, jackknives et al brought from the White House (TIME...
Three factors have made private power companies unpopular with a Senate majority: 1) their extensive anonymous propaganda against Government operation, as revealed by the Federal Trade Commission (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.); 2) their stubborn opposition to regulation by the Federal Power Commission (TIME, March 10); 3) the flagrant lobbying against Government operation and in favor of the American Cyanamid bid by the Tennessee River Improvement Association and its onetime head. Claudius Hart Huston, now Republican National Committee Chairman (TIME, March 31). Last week wrote Mark Sullivan, veteran Washington observer: "What it [the Senate's bill] symbolizes...
While Mr. Gandhi sat waiting for the water to evaporate, 319,000,000 Indians were comparatively peaceful. No riots, bloodshed or violence of any sort had marked his march on foot 165 miles from Ahmadabad to the sea at Dandi in 25 days (TIME, March 24 et seq.). He had broken the law against seditious utterance at every village on the march. He had obtained the resignation of dozens of village officials, the pledge of hundreds of villagers to join in his movement of Mass Civil Disobedience...
...that Sister Marie-Maxima of a religious House of St. Hyacinth in Quebec recovered "perfectly and instantaneously" on Dec. 30, 1927, from a prolonged attack of tubercular peritonitis. Second miracle was that Sister Savoie of the diocese of Chatham (Canada) had on July 9, 1926, a cure, also perfecta et instantanea, of prolonged tubercular peritonitis...
Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...