Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Jodok Fink, 76, of Andelsbuch, Vorarlberg, former vice-Chancellor of Austria (1920-22), potent member of the Christian Socialist Party; in Andelsbuch...
...talk of naval reduction turned attention to Britain's new First Lord of the Admiralty, Albert Victor Alexander, whose first task may be to scrap some of the proud ships he now commands. Labor Sea Lord Alexander is a former Baptist lay preacher, the son of a railway engineer. Like the admiral in Pinafore, he "polished up the handles so care-ful-lee, that now he is the ruler of the King's navee." Earnest, hard working, his appointment was greeted with disdainful sniffs in Tory circles which consider the post of First Lord of the Admiralty...
...Robert Bosch Magneto Co. fail to reverse Justice Grain's decision. Inventor Bosch will have to market his magnetoes, spark plugs, et al., under a new trade mark. Other purchasers of properties under the Alien Property Act will find in the Bosch precedent a promised security from competition of former German owners...
Defending his client from the onslaught of the effervescent tycoons was black-gowned Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour, famed lawyer, author of ponderous tomes, former Minister of Labor. But brash M. Reboux did not rely alone on the fame of oratorical Maître Paul-Boncour. Impressed with the formidable forces against him, he appealed for help to the Syndicat des Journalistes, an organization comparable to the U. S. Authors' League...
...interested in his work as assistant, and too many of them are not. One of the secrets of teaching is to inspire and arouse the interest of the students; this is as much the assistant's job as it is the professor's because it is with the former, generally, with whom the student comes in closer contact...