Word: june
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become famous as Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. His arrival from Johannesburg, South Africa, via London, was made the occasion for a humorous publicity campaign by the Publishers of Trader Horn, a biography of Afric blood and thunder which the old man is said to have "dictated" (TIME, June 27). Throughout the week, Mr. Smith wandered like a puzzled Rip Van Winkle through a series of functions at which he, in contrast to most of the literati present, was creditably sober...
George Herman "Babe" Ruth, failing to hit, wrote to New York for his favorite bat, Big Bertha, the heaviest bat used in the big leagues (48 ounces). Big Bertha has 31 notches in the handle, each notch for a home run. Ruth broke his bat Betsy in June when there were twelve notches...
...French Olympic Committee the French Government gave 1,500,000 francs "for preparation," promised 1,500,000 more in June. Said the secretary of M. Briand, Foreign Minister of the most parsimonious nation in the world, "We can't afford to lose...
...Putnam, offered U. S. Boy Scouts four months of fun and an avenue to fame. They will select two youths, between the ages of 13½ and 15, to go with them to Africa to observe animals with Hunter-Photographer & Mrs. Martin Johnson (Simba). The trip will begin on June 15, end in October. The two Boy Scouts will write a book about their doings, be paid royalties...
Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes, eldest daughter of Hugo Stinnes (late industrial lord of the German Ruhr), reached Peking, China, last week in an automobile which she had adventurously driven from Berlin across the Balkans, Turkey and Asiatic Russia (TIME, June 6). She will drive on "around the world" ferrying the Pacific and Atlantic...