Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since the murder 13 months ago of Arnold Rothstein, one of its most amiable gambler-racketeers (TIME, Dec. 24). Manhattan has been kept acutely Rothstein-conscious. Last week, when the State's sole suspect in hand-burly, big-jawed Gambler George A. McManus-was acquitted, the Rothstein spotlight seemed likely to flicker out, leaving another famed Manhattan murder in unsolved darkness...
...music, would it not enhance services for the dead? A fixed hour might be set for the nationwide broadcasting of funeral music and nationwide funerals might be timed accordingly. A resolution urging such procedure was introduced at a meeting of the New Jersey State Funeral Directors' Association, held last week in Camden, by John S. Martin, mortician, delegate from Elizabeth...
...Last week the spotlight of world attention focused on another U. S. diplomat. With his pockets stuffed with authorizations from President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson, Jay Pierrepont Moffat, U. S. Chargé D'Affaires at Berne,* traveled from London to Geneva to sign World Court articles of adherence once more...
These signings were really a triumph for ancient and honorable Elihu Root, U. S. elder statesman who spent a furious fortnight last March smoothing World Court-U. S. differences, drafting the Root Formula (TIME, April 1) which in effect left the U. S. entirely free to divorce the World Court instantly at any time after the final diplomatic marriage takes place. The marriage is not yet, the signature of Attaché Moffat was a mere betrothal. There remains U. S. Senate ratification. Washington wiseacres wagered that another year would pass before this is achieved...
Three Kings and three Queens made a full house in Sandringham, Norfolk, last week when King Haakon & Queen Maud of Norway, King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark sat down to take pink milk with King George & Queen Mary of Britain...