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Word: furthers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago Banker T. V. Soong told his brother-in-law President Chiang Kai-shek that China's huge military establishment must be curtailed. Otherwise, he said, not even the House of Soong could keep China's treasury from going bankrupt. When President Chiang-onetime field marshal and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Soong Scores | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Scotland Yard detectives favored the second version. The housekeeper recalled that Teacher Eaton had returned late, quarreled with a man in front of the apartment before entering. In the room were many clues. The detectives took fingerprints, found that the assailant had changed from his own blood-spattered clothes to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher on Vacation | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Aged 53 (last spring), Dr. Empringham rented a $5,000-per-year apartment in Manhattan. Said his janitor last week: "There was a constant stream of women and girls running into the building after him. Lots of them were beauties, too. But he was never there. It got to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: A Doctor's Evolution | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

As a further mark of leniency, both judges suspended sentence on Hudson Clarke Jr. on his promise to lead "an honorable life" and try to support his crippled father, and the wives and families of the others, who are left destitute. He walked from the court, free, with $1.27, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Simple Men | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

The only U. S. company which rivals this British monster of communications is I. T. & T. This company started out to become another A. T. & T., but in foreign parts. It brought together telephone systems in Cuba, Porto Rico, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil. Then able Colonel Sosthenes Behn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Great Dream | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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