Word: junes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where it was invented, one of Her Majesty's islands in the Caribbean. Recalling that Curacao is but 40 miles from the coast of Venezuela and that the Governor General of Cu-null was kidnapped by Venezuelan filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists of four officers...
...cotton planter, Mr. Blackshear became Rector of St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn last June. The congregation knew he had been trained at the Virginia Theological Seminary and had done graduate work at Oxford and Harvard. They knew he was a captain in the War, cited for bravery. They knew he was 36 years old. What they did not realize was that like any true southerner Mr. Blackshear believes Negro and white civilization can at the best be parallel, never equal. This lesson he taught them dramatically at a Sunday service...
...owner is International Paper & Power Co. and because power companies' press activities have lately been viewed with wide alarm (TIME, April 22 et seq.), authorized the sale of I. P. Co.'s 50% stock interest in Boston Publishing Co.-a development long rumored (TIME, June...
Died. Arthur S. Allen Jr., 22, Senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, owner and sailor of the sailboat in which Artist Rockwell Kent and party were wrecked this summer off Greenland (TIME, June 24); at Tarrytown, N. Y. Alighting from a bus, he was run down by an automobile...
...years ago at the University of Wisconsin Prof. Alexander Meiklejohn, one-time Amherst President, began an "experimental" college. His freshmen were to study only Periclean culture, his sophomores U. S. history, sociology. From the experimental college they were to enter the University's junior class (TIME, June 18. Sept. 10, 1928). This year the first batch of experiments will be thrown in with the general run of undergraduates. President Glenn Frank, Dr. Meiklejohn's great & good friend, who sponsored the experimental college, will soon have proof of his pet pedagogical pudding...