Word: jans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slovenes"?three peoples commonly called "Jugoslavs" (southern Slavs) for short. The potent, ruthless Serbs are the dominant race. Therefore the first son of Their Majesties?their chubby, five-year-old Crown Prince?bears the grand old Serbian name of PETER. When a second man-child was born (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928) the Croats got their innings, for the babe was soon Croatianly christened TOMISLAV. With Serbs and Croats satisfied it was high time, last week, to think of appeasing the Slovenes. Anxiously Queen Marie and King Alexander examined the relative merits of such typically Slovenic names...
...tenth anniversary of Prohibition (Jan. 16, 1930) U. S. distilleries will be steaming fragrantly in the legitimate production of whiskey. Their activities will be altogether legal and aboveboard, with no Dry raids, no protesting outcries from irate prohibitors...
...Commissioner Doran announced: "The Bureau of Prohibition will proceed to act upon applications ... for permits to manufacture whiskey for medicinal use. . . . The amount of actual whiskey on hand July 1, 1929 is 9,549,017 gallons. If further manufacture is now permitted, it will be late fall or nearly Jan. 1, 1930 before actual production commences. . . . Extensive examinations have been made of the bonded whiskey stocks and I can state that they are in sound condition. Of the 300,000 barrels in bonded storage not in excess of 1,000 barrels are of questionable quality. . . . The withdrawal and consumption...
STREET SCENE-Pulitzer Prizewinning sequences of love, dialect and death in Manhattan's brownstone belt (TIME, Jan...
...Manhattan, smartmart is Bonwit Teller & Co., founded 35 years ago by Paul J. Bonwit. Little Bonwit Tellers have been established at Miami Beach, Palm Beach, Southampton, Bar Harbor. Last week Bonwit Teller made partners of the public, offered 60,000 shares of preferred at $52. For fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 1929, Bonwit Teller showed net earnings of $563,066.66. The new financial structure will be operated by the old management...