Word: janning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. John Oliver Crane, son of Charles Richard Crane (onetime U. S. Minister to China), onetime Secretary to President Thomas G. Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, brother-in-law of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Minister to Great Britain; and Countess Theresa Martini Marescotti; at Rome...
Kabul grew too hot last week for gleaming-eyed, white-tusked King Habibullah, the savage onetime bandit who last winter wrested Afghanistan's throne from weak, well-meaning little King Amanullah (TIME, Jan. 28). All through the summer, Usurper Habibullah has been harassed by the lean, ruthless, white-chinned Nadir Khan, ill-famed for boiling his captured enemies in oil (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Nadir converged three armies of overwhelming might upon Kabul. Prudent Habibullah fled in an airplane to escape being French-fried. Without resistance the city fell. Since victorious Nadir was once a general...
...William Huntington Kirkpatrick sentenced the 'Legger to 15 months at Atlanta and a $20,000 fine. Broker Norris was fined $200 on the ground that, though the act of purchasing liquor is not prohibited, yet the act of purchasing aids and abets the prohibited transportation of liquor (TIME, Jan...
...name of his country from The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, to The Kingdom of Jugoslavia. More vital to most Jugoslavians was another decree issued by King Alexander almost simultaneously. It looked forward to an imminent end of the royal dictatorship established on Christmas Day, 1928 (TIME, Jan. 14) and a return to parliamentary government. It altered the entire map of Jugoslavia by dividing the country into nine Banats or states, each Banat governed by a Banus appointed by the King. Historic names like Croatia and Montenegro went by the board, the new Banats being named for Jugoslavia...
...acres. Yet despite its dominance, Cuba Cane suffered with all the other Cuban producers when their tremendous output was joined by new peacetime crops from Europe. For many a year Cuba Cane has stumbled on, always seeming on the verge of either collapse or sudden success. But coming on Jan. 1, 1930, is an obstacle no company in poor shape could meet-the maturity of $25,000,000 debentures. To surmount this obligation, a complete reorganization was planned, chief feature of which is that present debenture holders will receive new debentures plus a bonus of common stock...