Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Allene Tew Burchard of Manhattan, widow of onetime vice chair man Anson Wood Burchard of General Electric Co.; to Prince Henry XXXIII of Reuss, widower of Princess Victoria Margarette of Hohenzollern. Until 1918, the House of Reuss ruled over two principalities on the Polish frontier of Germany. For many centuries all Reuss princes have been named Henry. At the end of every 100 years, the numbering begins at I again...
...large collection of 16th Century manuscripts concerning the conquest of Mexico and Peru by Cortez, Pizarro and their successors. The documents included a bill of sale of Alvarado's armada to Pizarro and Almagro for 100,000 gold pesos; also, the Cabildo book of the City of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas telling of the assassination of Pizarro by Almagro...
Last fortnight (TIME, Jan. 14), one Francisco Fimores, Mexican rancher of Douglas, Ariz., led into Mexico a small force of men. He sought Apache Indians who, in 1926, had killed his wife, kidnapped his son. Last week, U. S. soldiers and cattle men gathered along the Mexican frontier, prepared an expedition to rescue Mr. Fimores, from whom no word has been received. A member of his band, however, had been found alone and delirious. It was feared that the avenging band had been surprised and slaughtered...
Bolivia-Paraguay. The squabble arising from bloody skirmishes between Bolivian and Paraguayan frontier troops was finally squelched, last week, when Delegates of both republics signed at Washington a special Protocol of Conciliation, setting up a board of nine judges to investigate, adjudicate...
From the Russian frontier loyal Afghan troops under War Minister Mohammed Vali Khan rushed to succor Kabul last week. Indomitable, they crossed by forced marches the high and snow-capped Hindu Kush, debouching at last upon the plain of Kabul. Throughout the week British army planes from India took off 20 white women from Kabul, mostly British and German, but including one honeymooning U. S. bride, Mrs. Carol Isaacson...