Word: jans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touch with Kabul, that King Amanullah had delegated his Royal powers to a "Council of Fifty," composed of "leading Mullahs and Khans of the Realm." Since these persons would unquestionably revoke all the newfangled decrees issued by King Amanullah after returning from his famed tour of Europe (TIME, Jan. 23- June 4. '28), joyous Afghans prepared for a new order, "Back to Barbarism...
...dictature set up in Jugoslavia last fortnight by King Alexander and General Petar Zivkovitch, Commander of the Royal Guards (TIME, Jan. 14) assumed, last week, the powers of Absolutism, if not Despotism...
...Russia's rich peasants (Kulaki) want to reduce their 1929 acreage, Moscow has planned a vast tract, of 10,000,000 acres, where wheat may be grown abundantly and efficiently. As everyone knows, the world's most efficient wheatgrower is Montana's Thomas D. Campbell (TIME, Jan. 14, 1938), world's "biggest farmer." Most natural, therefore, was Moscow's decision to send a commission to the Campbell farm at Hardin, Mont. There, commissioners heard that the annual Campbell harvest tops 500,000 bushels...
...above are jokes. They were printed in Life Jan. 4, the first issue under the editorship of Norman Hume Anthony (TIME, Jan. 7). They were apparently considered extraordinary jokes, for Editor Anthony reprinted them word for word in Life, Jan...
Great traveler that he was, Theodore Roosevelt's world-wanderings have been rivaled, perhaps eclipsed, by those of his widow. Since his death, on Jan. 6, 1919, Mrs. Roosevelt has traveled some 115,372 miles, as follows...