Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet news TASS (telegraph agency of the Soviet State) reported: "Chinese troops unexpectedly opened artillery and rifle fire on Soviet border troops in the Grodekov-Poltaskoya district, in the Nikolsk region [on the 'eastern front' near Vladivostok]." The Chinese version of this clash described it as a "Soviet invasion" by infantry and bombing planes. The Japanese Rengo correspondent at Harbin, Manchuria (300 miles from the scene) probably hazarded as good a guess as anyone's as to what happened when he cabled : "There was hard fighting with considerable loss on both sides which continued for 20 hours...
Helen Hayes, wife of Playwright Charles MacArther (Lulu Belle, co- author The Front Page) broke her contract to play in Coquette next season. When the Actors' Equity Association complained she answered: "Surely I broke my contract, I'm going to have a baby. That is more important to me than the title role in Coquette...
...Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank of the World's Greatest Advertisers. It was also Lever Bros. search for raw materials that resulted in the first great industrial concession made by a nation to a manufacturer, and it was Lord Leverhulme who developed the Belgian Congo more successfully than it had been exploited under...
...Revolution was at its height, the Gazette took due notice of battles, in despatches, letters. When the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Gazette was the only newspaper to print its text in full. With a spurt of news instinct, Editors Dixon and Hunter once announced on the front page: "For London news, see last page." Such back-paging, however, lasted but a short while. Soon Gazette readers were again being entertained by "The Assyrian Practice of Marriage," "Present State of Algiers," "Advices from Petersburg...
Little more than a year ago they declared an armistice upon another front Then Mr. Meyer, recently elected to generalship, made a truce with Shell in India after a great price-cutting was resulting from Socony's bringing Russian petroleum down to Bombay and Calcutta (TIME July 16, 1928). Now another armistice may be necessitated. Shell having duplicated Socony's Indian tactics and spent some $40,000,000 for the acquisition ol service stations in Socony's homeland...