Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would receive nobody before she left, least of all Supreme Court Justice Constantin Saratzeanu, though he humbly sought an audience. Grandmother Queen Marie could not forgive Justice Saratzeanu for having been elected by Parliament to a vacancy among the three Regents of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 21), a vacancy which she had dearly coveted. As Her Majesty's special train chuffed off toward Balcic all Rumania gasped at an interview blazoned above her name by the Royalist newspaper Universal: "The royal family does not even know what it means to strive for honors and privileges. We do not need such...
When General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, entered heaven, he left his dynasty in the hands of his son, William Bramwell Booth. William quarreled with his sister, Commander Evangeline Cory Booth; the dynasty was endangered (TIME, Jan. 14). Last March the deadlock between Salvationists Bramwell and Evangeline was broken when the Salvation Army Council elected Edward John Higgins as General (TIME, Mar. 11 ) . Salvationists Bramwell and Evangeline had another sister, Lucy Booth-Hellberg, 61, stationed at Stockholm, where were her home and her husband's grave. Last week Lucy Booth-Hellberg, appointed to a station in South...
...that time the greatest Swedish match company was the Jönköping-Vulcan combination. Herr Kreuger's first step was to unite all the independent match companies into United Swedish Match Factories, Ltd. He then reorganized Kreuger & Toll as a holding company for the match factories, left Herr Toll to look out for the construction end of his business. In 1917, Jönköping-Vulcan and United Swedish were merged into Swedish Match Co.-Svenska Tands-ticksaktiebolaget-and Herr Kreuger had achieved the first of his many monopolies. The monopolistic aspect of Herr Kreuger...
...America has exerted greater influence upon the course of medical education in this country, and hence indirectly upon the course of medical thought and practice" than has Dr. Welch. Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876 on money bequeathed by Johns Hopkins (1794-1873), Quaker merchant of Baltimore. Hopkins left instructions for the development of first a hospital, then a medical school. The University's first president, Daniel Colt Oilman, went to Europe looking for a man who would be his first pathologist. European, savants told him to return to Manhattan and get William Henry Welch who, while practicing medicine...
...engagement to Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, famed "Radical" cleric. Dr. Grant was forbidden to marry her by Bishop William Thomas Manning, because she was a divorcee. In 1924 she broke the engagement, "not wishing to ruin Dr. Grant's career." When he died within the year, he left her an estate of some $65,000, which, being bankrupt, she sorely needed...