Word: last
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer to these questions." Then, amid I discontented grumbling, he proceeded with a stodgy though important speech, announcing that Soviet grain collectors in the provinces have succeeded in forcing the peasants to sell at the Government's price some eleven million tons of grain. This is 10% more than last year, will amply suffice to feed the Red Army and the proletarian population of Russia's cities throughout the winter. "Let us rejoice and sing!" cried the Peasant-President, motioning to the orchestra leader. "Once more the good Russian Land has given us plenty of bread...
Temperamental little President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China, whose waist is as slim and mind as changeable as a woman's, changed his mind every other day last week, about the civil war he is waging with the so-called "People's Army" (TIME, Nov.11...
About the most certain thing in China, last week, was the kidnaping at Tientsin of one Aaron Brenner, 40-year-old Manhattan fur buyer, by bandits who asked $500.000 ransom...
...Last week this second son moved out a step from his journalistic juniority. New York City's policemen and firemen had won a pay-raise from the voters. The Hearstpapers had vigorously helped. In expressing thanks, the city's servants addressed not only the newspapers and their owner but also William Randolph Hearst Jr., who six months ago succeeded son George as President of the New York American...
...Last week Pilot Richardson returned. The smoke over Santa Maria was grey and ominous. For miles around the verdure was burnt and hideous. Pilot Richardson swung his plane lower. Haciendas, coffee plantations had disappeared. The flanks of Santa Maria were streaked with wrinkled beds of steaming lava, moving in ponderous streams toward the sea. In the midst of the lava stream a little hill made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept...