Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Multilateral. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg was reported by a State Department official, last week, to be "giving some thought" to a project for unanimous signing, at Paris next fall, of his Multilateral Treaty "outlawing war as an instrument of national policy." Germany, France and Italy sent notes last week, telling their willingness to sign, and similar responses were expected from other invited states...
Died. Morris M. Titterington, 35, and lady friend, in a plane smash; at Pottsville, Pa. He founded the Pioneer Instrument Co., invented the earth inductor compass, said to have made long airplane flights possible...
Efrem Zimbalist, violinist husband of Singer Alma Gluck, had a reunion last week with his favorite violin-a rare 18th century Cremona, made by famed Guadagnini, worth some $25,000. The instrument was stolen a year ago from Mr. Zimbalist's dressing room in a Los Angeles concert hall. The thief was captured when he tried to sell his distinguished booty in Chicago. After being shipped to Los Angeles to be used as evidence, the violin was addressed to Mr. Zimbalist in Australia. It missed him there and missed him in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Calcutta, Bombay, etc., Chicago...
...Cora Bennett, unable to live on her pension as widow of famed Air Pilot Floyd Bennett, peddles life insurance policies in Brooklyn. Last week, she sold her first policy. The purchaser: Charles H. Colvin, of the Pioneer Instrument Co., manufacturers of instruments used by Aviator Bennett flying to the North Pole...
Altimeter: An instrument for measuring elevation of aircraft above a given plane (usually sea level...