Word: guns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amid prodigious Nanking rejoicings, Sir Miles extended official British recognition to the new Nationalist state and presented his credentials as the first British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Nanking while Chinese airplanes zoomed overhead and with Chinese bands piping and squeaking God Save the King. A 21-gun salute boomed from the British war boat Suffolk anchored off Nanking on the mighty wimpling Yantze...
...Chinese waters a war boat potent enough to thunder a proper salute. A recent trifling difference between U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang resulted in cancellation of fully perfected plans that a U. S. war boat should fire the first "big gun" salute since the U. S. officially "recognized" the Nationalists months ago (TIME, Aug. 6). The failure of U. S. guns to boom seems an inexcusably missed trick...
...widow of the late Secretary of Commerce & Labor under Roosevelt, friend of the late Hunter Carl E. Akeley, will sail on Jan. 19 for Africa, push up the river Nile, into the Livingstone Mountains, in quest of birds, beasts and vegetation for the American Museum of Natural History. No gun-toter, she will use the camera...
...Jones made them cringe again by showing them two bombs full of blindex, gas invented by Dr. Byron Cassius Goss, onetime lieutenant colonel with the Chemical War Service, now president of the Lake Erie Chemical Co., Cleveland. Said Dr. Jones to the Chicagoans: "I can take this fountain pen gun, discharge it at a man 20 feet away and in the twinkling of an eye he will be blinded for half an hour. I could discharge this large gun and blind everybody in this large ballroom in the fraction of a second...
Died. John Devlin, 82, "Diamond Man" (50 years or more of service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...