Word: jans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian Baron Wrangel heard of, but did not see, the island. In 1867, Captain Thomas Long, U. S. citizen, sailed around and named it. Just before the War, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who recently announced his plans to drift across the Arctic in a tub-shaped boat (TIME, Jan. 14), was wrecked there. He walked across the ice to Siberia. Almost half his party died on Wrangel Island. In 1921, four men and Ada Blackjack, Eskimo sempstress, tried to live on the island. All but Miss Blackjack died. And dead, probably, are the Russian colonists sent there two years...
...hunting in Africa.* Resigned. The Very Rev. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, "to devote himself to preaching and literary work" and also because of much-bruited differences of opinion between himself and the Cathedral's Bishop William Thomas Manning (TIME, Jan...
...Jan. 12, ten days before the Hoover arrival in Miami, police went to the Coral Gables Kennel Club and arrested Restaurant Cashier Willis Callahan, Dancing Teacher Thomas Mulligan, Tailorman Jacob B. Sommers. They were charged with "conspiring to do bodily injury to the person of Herbert Hoover and by threats and intimidation to prevent him from taking office as President of the U. S." Three days later they were arraigned, placed under $10,000 bail, which they could not raise. Then the prosecutor, Assistant U. S. Attorney Louis S. Joel, delayed the hearing while he looked for "missing" witnesses...
...disturbed on international exchange. The disadvantage is that, in practice, prodigious complexities arise, out of which not a few crooks have profited. Exactly a year ago another set of international sharpers cheated the Great Powers concerned out of $12,000,000 worth of German hops, coal, seed (TIME, Jan...
Many a first name has been dropped with fame. Kreisler needs no Fritz for identification, no Mister for his dignity. Neither does Paderewski need his Ignaze Jan, nor Gieseking now his Walter. But ten years ago Kreisler was a celebrated violinist and Paderewski was the Premier of Poland as well as pianist, while Giese king was just a young German whose money had gone in the War and whose profession was music. Swiftly, however, his reputation was made, first with modern music, because in Germany there was a demand for all music that had been made during Wartime, music particularly...