Word: iii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. Not only had he been assured by his lawyers (Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Dudley Field Malone) that progress was being made in the reconstruction of his wealth; not only might he go to court to obtain his patrimony, which is withheld because his father, Cornelius III, "has old fashioned ideas about the newspaper field"; not only was he "wiser for a bad experiment"-chiefly as touched the selection of lieutenants-and determined to conduct his affairs more astutely in the future; but he was. likewise determined, after having built up his California ventures into a new fortune...
...Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria, set out incognito last week on a royal vacation which took him through Italy and on to a quiet Swiss resort. The Tsar is 32. During the two decades of his adolescence and manhood there have been persistent rumors that he may marry. Why not? Last week rumors ran that he is "about to espouse a Swedish princess" (Astrid, 25, Martha, 20, and Ingrid, 16, are all available); and of course he might marry, said the rumormongers, Princess Giovanna, 19, but surely not Princess Maria, 12, of Italy. The press of the world has grown...
...hour, while paying them the same daily wage as heretofore. II. Italian newspapers are forbidden to print editions larger than six pages, from which must bs stricken all news of crime, sport, the arts, literature. News of other nations than Italy must be cut to a skeletonized resume. III. After Nov. 1, all gasoline imported into Italy must be mixed with a fixed proportion of Italian alcohol. IV. Builders are forbidden to erect luxurious private houses of any sort, must confine themselves to public buildings and to dwellings for workmen, the lesser bourgeoisie. V. Restaurateurs and vintners are prohibited from...
Died. Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, fourth Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 85, twice challenger for the famed America's (yachting) Cup (with Valkyrie II, 1893 and Valkyrie III, 1895, both designed by Watson; defeated respectively by Vigilant and Defender, both designed by Herreshoff) ; at London...
Lyon Boston, of New York City; Charles Hickling Bradford, of Boston; Laurence Eliot Bunker, of Wellesley Hills; Frank Morton Carpenter, of Cambridge; Leonard Phyneas Dantzig, of Chicago, III.: Thomas Carr Howe, Jr. of Indianapolis, Ind.: Robert William Lishman, of Lynn: Theodore Benedict Massell, of Brookline; William lehabod Nichols, of Wilton Conr John Mikon Potter, of Milwaukee, Wis: Carl Joseph Bush, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Leopold Urtel Shapiro, of Boston; Hymen Theodore Silverstein, of Mattapan; Davidson Sommers, of St. Paul, Minn.; Wilfred Shafer Stone, of La Grange...