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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flat marshy Dagö Island at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, not far from St. Petersburg itself. Twenty years before, Dagö Island had been colonized by good industrious Swedes who fished in the Gulf and made hay on the salt marshes. In 1787, Peter's grand-daughter-in-law, plump, passionate Catherine II grew tired of this Swedish colony practically at her doorstep. With a gesture she had it deported. The Dago fishermen and their families were driven to the mainland, herded across Russia, stopped for a time in southern Russia, settled at last...
...shot came from a window of the hotel's grand suite, occupied by its most prosperous and ugly customer. He and several of his concubines had moved in some time ago, while other guests pointed covertly, whispered, "It's Chang Tsung-chang and his harem.'' As every Chinaman knows, Ugly Customer Chang is the rapacious former Chinese War Lord of Shantung. He taxed and stole $10,000,000 cash out of that luckless province before the Chinese Nationalists drove him out (TIME, Sept. 24). Insatiable, he set sail from Japanese waters last spring with a privateering expedition, recaptured part...
...remarkable medicinal properties. Since that period many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary?better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often large and brawny than thin and puny?but experience, reputation and $15,000 in cash prizes. With the single exception of World's Champion...
...Master is a player who has won the championship of his country; a Grand Master one who has beaten others in international competition...
Birthday. John R. Voorhis, Grand Sachem of Tammany rfall, president of the Municipal Board of Elections; in Manhattan...