Word: hering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearby sat Sir Robert Baden-Powell, 72, founder of all Scouts. Chuckling, he remarked: "Some famous journalist said we would all be battling if we attempted to bring together so many different nationalities. Yet here we are, happy, ready and tolerant."
Mayors Mediate. Despairing of Government mediation the Mayor of Blackburn induced nine other Lancashire mayors to unite under his chairmanship as a Committee of Conciliation. In a few hours they had established relations with Secretary Thomas Ashurst of the Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Association, with Secretary George Pogson of the...
In 1721, stubborn Charles XII of Sweden gave up hope of beating Russia's huge black-haired Peter the Great, signed the Peace of Nystad. Among lands ceded to Russia at that time, was flat marshy Dagö Island at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, not far...
The Story. Wolf Brassen said farewell to the paradise of childhood at 14, in 1909, in the southeastern edge of the Harz. Summering there, his father, his friend, his sweetheart, his would-be rival, all unconsciously matured the high-school student. Wolf's father, however, wished to keep him...
MURDER AT BRATTOX GRANGE-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). When Sir Hector Davidson was found dead with a metal file driven through his heart, only one person was seriously suspected, Guy Davidson, the heir. First the police charged Guy with the murder; then even Dr. Priestley, famed criminologist whom Guy...