Word: june
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower Rhineland, hung motionless in the air for three days. Astronomer Director Wolf of the Königstuhl Observatory near Heidelberg squinted at the white pall through telescopes and announced that it was a mass of finely powdered lava blown high in the air from erupting Vesuvius (TIME. June 17). He warned Bavarians to expect the usual volcanic twilight phenomenon - the whole sky turning orange at sunset and staying so long after the sun has gone down...
Undeterred, the Mexican press insisted that practical agreement had already been reached between Church and State, mentioned June 29, St. Peter's Day, as the day agreed upon for formal resumption of church services, the singing of Jubilate Deos and Te Deums...
Union of the Protestant sects, nowadays the major topic of Protestant discussions, received further advancement at the Christian Herald Conference for laymen and churchmen (TIME, June 10), which closed last week at Buck Hill Falls...
Died. Ray Keech, 28, of Philadelphia, onetime truck driver, onetime (April, 1928) holder of the world's auto speed record (207.55 m. p. h.), winner of the Indianapolis race on Memorial Day (TIME, June 10); at Altoona, Pa., Speedway, in a four-car smash-up while traveling at a speed...
...financed by $12,000 from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics) the National Aeronautic Association last week was able to present concrete plans for private flying clubs. Such clubs exist in England and Canada, where the Governments subsidize them as an aspect of national defense (TIME, June 3). In the U. S., club flying, like commercial aviation, must depend on private finances, although the Government gave commercial aviation backbone by means of mail contracts and Government officials are now initiating plans for the clubs...