Word: j
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in Russia. By Swedish law five years' residence is necessary before an alien can become naturalized. Last week enthusiastic Swedes appealed to King Gustaf V, hoped that he would intervene specially in their behalf. Meanwhile the Gammal-Svenksby exiles were being temporarily quartered in artillery barracks at JÖnkÖping, focus of the Swedish match industry. Minister of Agriculture Johan Bernhard Johansson was making arrangements to establish small farm holdings for them in provinces where big estates are being split...
...Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses last week figuratively rubbed its hands. Its horse-racing season had opened. The fat figure of Harry ("Hot Dog") Stevens seemed to grow fatter as he turned hungry people away from his race track club. The red face of Edward J. Tranter, potent Saratoga auctioneer, seemed to grow redder as he thought of the $5,000,000 worth of horse flesh that had arrived. Names of Whitney. Riddle, Widener, Vanderbilt, Sinclair, dutifully took their places on the "boards" as the week advanced. On shaded streets leading to the track rolled yellow...
Murdered: George Danielson, 67, bank messenger delivering $7,263.63 from Bradley Beach, N. J., to Neptune City, N. J...
Graf Zeppelin, Again. The gorilla and the chimpanzee were glum, the 600 canaries fidgety, the 19 passengers restless, the imprisoned stowaway morose?aboard the Graf Zeppelin as she rushed across the Atlantic last week on the second transoceanic commercial air voyage. She reached Lakehurst, N. J., from Friedrichshafen, at the German-Swiss border in 95 hrs., 23 mins. without trouble, having averaged 60 miles an hour during most of the trip,?about twice as fast as the S. S. Bremen. Passengers, after an agreeably brief customs and immigration inspection, gloated over the relative uniqueness of their air travel...
Last week at London, Richard Joshua Reynolds, 23, son of the late founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarets, etc.), was found guilty of killing a man while drunk and driving his motor car. The court sentenced him to five months' light imprisonment for manslaughter...