Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ebensburg, Pa. Anna Komarmicka, Chicago milliner, had last spring gone to visit her sick father in Poland. Later, in Paris, her permit to re-enter the U. S. was stolen. From the U. S. Consul at Paris she understood that she would have no trouble at Ellis Island. Nevertheless, she was ordered "excluded." TIME erred in saying that she was ordered "deported." She was admitted to the U. S., but with an order of exclusion pending against...
News came last week that Abd-el-Krim, famed "Napoleon of Morocco," now exiled by his French captors (TIME, Sept. 20) upon Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, a remote Elba, has turned for recreation to dictating his memoirs to a secretary who is also one of his guards...
...Admiral: "Sitting peacefully in my home at Newport, R. I., last week, I was startled by a sudden crash at a window beside me. I leaped to my feet, ready for the worst. Upon the floor amid jagged splinters of glass lay a hawk as big as a Rhode Island...
...Young says that he and Governor Trumbull belong to an island club the rules of which forbid members wearing ties or collars while on the island. For infraction the offending member gets a ducking. "Wouldn't it be fine if New England could have a dinner with its collars, and, neckties, off..?" *The textile groups with boots and shoes constitute 31% of New England industry. The balance is spread over 200 classifications, all highly localized. Thus Maine and Massachusetts make 75% of New England paper and wood pulp. Rhode Island and Massachusetts make 99% of the jewelry...
...behooves us, therefore, to go ahead with the work of preparing them for ultimate nationhood. This means to govern the Islands efficiently, to create a colonial service which will enlist competent men in the lower positions--men of the type who went to the Islands in the days of Cameron Forbes, ready to sacrifice their lives, if need be, in order to serve the Filipinos. It means giving future governors the power to administer constructively. It means investing money, establishing farm schools, and inaugurating a campaign to introduce modern agricultural methods. It means developing roads and inter-island communications...