Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most charming woman who has served the Empire in a century. Middleaged, but slender and quick as a girl, she was by title only Oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak was in sober truth her realm...
...interrelation of these banks, latest to fail, was intimate. They belonged to a chain of 120 banks, financed and supported by the Bankers' Trust Co. of Atlanta, Ga. (W. D. Manley, president; Paul J. Baker, treasurer). Part of its policy was to insure the deposits of allied institutions. Therefore when the Umatilla (Fla.) Bank discovered that some of its $441,500 deposits in the Bankers' Trust Co. were going to cover the closures of the Bank of Dania (TIME, July 12) and of others in similar predicament, the Umatilla officials applied for, and obtained, a receivership against...
Scottish links patriarchs plodded wide-eyed after young Roland Mackenzie of Washington, D. C., who was hitting terrific drives. They hemmed and mumbled among themselves about the firmness and precision of square shouldered young Watts Gunn of Atlanta, Ga, They despaired silently when brilliant Roger Wethered of England had an off morning and lost to the equally brilliant but less reliable Robert Scott Jr. of Glasgow. Wethered was one of the Isles' best hopes against the Americans. And Sir Ernest Holderness was another. Sir Ernest lost to another untried youngster, Robert Peattie, whose father is postmaster of Perth. That really...
...Augusta, Ga...
...prizes which Joseph Pulitzer established. So this year the gold medal for "most distinguished and meritorious service rendered by an American newspaper" was awarded to a brave, obscure journal, which had dared in Georgia to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, the antievolutionists, the lynchers. That paper was the Columbus, Ga., Enquirer...