Word: etting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earthquake, not wind, last week rocked the chair of Col. Carmi Alderman Thompson, personal representative in the Philippines of President Coolidge (TIME, April 12, THE PRESIDENCY, April 19, July 19 et seq. THE CABINET) as he dined with Mrs. Thompson in a Manila hotel. "Hm-m-m," said Mrs. Thompson, "an earthquake." "Well, we can't help that," answered the Colonel. "Pass the olives." The next day Col. Thompson clambered into his Filipino-financed automobile for a tour of Tayabas province and a two-day visit at the plantation home of Manuel Quezon, president of the Filipino Senate. Like...
Last week the Naval Court of Inquiry, headed by Admiral Robert E. Coontz, reported the results of its investigation into the causes of the recent explosions in the Naval ammunition depot at Lake Denmark, N. J. (TIME, July 19 et...
...Squelched with ire a Laborite proposal for adjournment only until Aug. 17 instead of Nov. 9, "because of the continued emergency arising from the continuance of the coal strike (TIME, May 10 et...
...striving to bring pressure upon the U. S. to modify the Franco-U. S. debt terms (TIME, Aug. 2 et...
...Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, successor to the authority of Peter, brooded last week at 'the Vatican upon what forces he should loose against Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico, arch foe and suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church has withstood down the ages onslaughts from the civil power of almost every predominantly Catholic state. When Vittorio Emanuele II contracted the temporal sway of the Pope within the Holy See (1870) he but served to enhance the spiritual prestige...