Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important questions which were raised at the conference Professor Wilson quoted from an article which appeared in the New Republic on October 5, by Herbert Croly, editor of that magazine. "A case in point was the attitude of the conference toward the question of feeding the inhabitants of an island like Japan, who are increasing at the rate of almost 900,000 a year and who cannot, because of the policy of other Pacific nations, export in sufficient quantities either population or goods. The conference did not, of course, explicitly recommend any way of dealing with this problem...
...subscribe to TIME; I am what you term a newsstand buyer. I read TIME from cover to cover every week, and have only one criticism to make. May I ask why, although it was announced in the leading New York and Washington newspapers (not to speak of the Long Island papers) no mention was made in TIME of the engagement of Miss Thalia Fortescue to Ensign Thomas Massie? I do not know Miss Fortescue personally, but her family is among the most prominent of the summer residents of both Bayport and Sayville, while she herself is one of the leading...
When the eighth Assembly of the League of Nations ended its deliberations (TIME, Oct. 10) Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, hastened to the sea coast and there boarded his yacht, the Dolphin, and was no more heard of until, off Majorca, the principal Balearic island off Spain, he entertained General Primo de Rivera, Dictator of Spain...
...complete list follows: Massachusetts, 15,906: New Hampshire, 642; Vermont, 214; Maine, 792; Connecticut, 991; Rhode island, 852. Total for New England...
...Navy are required to take one of these summer cruises. Fifteen members of the class of 1930 left Boston on June 25 on board the cruiser Florida, especially assigned by the Navy Department to carry the Naval Science units of Harvard, Yale, and Georgia Tech. Proceeding down Long Island Sound, the cruiser touched at Newport and New Haven, where the Yale unit, already veterans of a week's service, disembarked. The cruiser carried the Harvard sailors to Annapolis, where the contingent spent July 4, and sailed for home, arriving in Boston on July...