Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highest Feed Barrister in Great Britain" Sir John Simon prepared to sail at once for India, there to continue the labors of his "Indian Statutory Commission" (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.). Sir John, as Chairman of the Commission, is directing a gigantic research into whether it is advisable for Parliament to grant or withhold a greater measure of Indian self government...
Thus far the Indian Council of State (upper house) has voted co-operation with Sir John; but the Indian Legislative Assembly (lower house) has rebuffed him completely; and all throughout the spring and summer malcontents have tried to foment an Indian boycott of British goods...
Since then, speculators in General Motors have pitched their ears to the tune of the words of tycoons. John J. Raskob once said that General Motors would go to $225; the stock jumped upward...
Engaged. Winifred Rockefeller, daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller, of Greenwich, Conn., grandniece of John D. Rockefeller; to Brooks Emeny, Yale instructor of government & international relations...
Matchmaking. Chemist John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, England, invented the first match, exactly 101 years ago. It was called a "friction light." It consisted of a wooden splint, one quarter inch in width, dipped in a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, gum and starch.* The next epoch in matchmaking was brought about by the use of phosphorus. Over-inflammable, phosphorus matches caused many a fire. Factory hands, employed in their production succumbed to an incurable disease called phossy-jaw. The dangers of these matches at length were recognized in the laws of most nations, including matchmaking...