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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty miles from the Ohio shore, in Lake Erie, is Pelee Island, Ontario. It is having a real-estate boom. One J. A. Baxter and the Manhattan financial firm of Mills Mover & Co. announced plans for "the greatest pleasure resort within easy reach of the U. S." Work on the Pelee Island hotel of 350 rooms is to be started at once. Golf links, tennis courts, bathing beaches, 4.4% beer and wine will be there. Still another diversion was proposed. Said Mr. Baxter: "This Monte Carlo stuff is the bunk. Gambling is against the laws of Ontario. There will...
...from 1918 to the present day and the South African lion has been tamed by the greatest of all tamers?Government responsibility. In June of last year, he succeeded Premier Smuts (TIME, June 30) and with the help of the Labor Party mustered a majority in the House of Assembly. To get Labor's help, he was obliged to renounce any immediate effort towards secession; becoming Premier, he has buried this bugaboo, in many speeches has pronounced its funeral oration. It is therefore certain that he extends a welcome to the Prince of Wales not only in his own name...
...Kansas Court of Industrial Relations (formally created by act of the Legislature). In effect, it was a court of compulsory arbitration. It made the little man famous, made him a conspicuous figure at the Republican Convention that year. William Allen White, sage of the prairies, christened it " the greatest piece of constructive legislation of the reconstruction period...
Arrived in the U. S. Otto Hugo Stinnes, third son of Germany's once greatest industrial magnate, the late Hugo Stinnes. Like all the Stinnes family, he was not given to loquaciousness. All that he would say was: "I am here to study conditions generally throughout the United States and I have nothing else...
...tterdämmerung. Babe Ruth, home run magnate, "attended by the sympathy of the Nation" and press, lay in Manhattan, stricken with cold, run-down condition, influenza, indigestion and a bump on the head. In Nashville, Tenn., visited with far less solicitude, Tyrus Cobb, "the greatest player m baseball," took to his bed with influenza. A few days ago, shortly before the season opened, 12 other able players were retired from their lineups with injuries received in play or colds: Wright-stone, Philadelphia Phillies, broken finger; Maranville, Chicago Cubs, broken leg; Grigsby, Chicago Cubs, broken collar bone; Archdeacon, Chicago White...