Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bishop of La Rochelle had denounced the erection of this monument as "a public sin." Reason: the statue represented the most famed and also infamous son of Pons, the late Prime Minister Justin Louis Emile Combes 1903-1905. Due to his efforts the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished in France, and ever since Combes has been a hero to the parties of the Left and to the Clericals a dastard. As Edouard Herriot prepared to pull the unveiling cord, he was conscious that a crowd by no means wholly friendly surged around him. Raising his deep timbred voice in sonorous...
...situation cannot be grasped without harking back a year to the Prime Ministry of Vintila Bratiano's late brother, the great Jon Bratiano. He it was who daringly altered the Royal succession and placed upon the Throne a baby King, Mihai I (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927). This stroke of statecraft was designed to maintain the power of the Tycoons unchallenged until the baby king grew up. To make doubly sure, Jon Bratiano set up a Regency of two old men and a youth, all denounced by the Parliamentary Opposition as puppets...
Other clients, who desired to make ambitious and tangible presents, were dissuaded by the architects who suggested a more practical scheme. In pursuance of this scheme Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, poet and sister to the late Theodore Roosevelt, presented "a sum of money [contributed by the guests at the party] to the American Institute of Architects to establish a fund to enable French students of architecture to visit the United States to study the work done here, which will help to repay in a small way the generosity of the French Government to the many American students who have received...
Married. Ella Victoria Herbert of Manhattan, daughter of the late famed composer Victor Herbert; and Robert Stevens Bartlett of Binghampton, N. Y.; in Manhattan...
Married. Major Jordan Lawrence Mott 3d of Santa Catalina Island, Calif., grandson of the late Ironmaster Jordan Lawrence Mott; and Mrs. Frances Hewett Bowne (Frances Gibson), onetime operetta singer (The Chocolate Soldier); in Merced, Calif. In 1912 Major Mott eloped from New York with Mrs. Bowne. He left his wife, two children; she left Manufacturer Bowne. They shipped as purser & stewardess aboard a British freighter. In Japan Major Mott received the Order of the Rising Sun, edited a temperance monthly, wrote stories. Eight years ago Mr. Bowne divorced his wife. Last year the first Mrs. Mott consented to a divorce...