Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be taken in his law enforcement campaign. He proposed to proceed sanely, to instill in people a respect for all law by education and moral suasion. He sought to avoid specialization on the prohibition law. Wet observers credited him with a shrewd and nimble sidestep. Most embarrassed was Major Edwin B. Hesse of the Washington, D. C., police force, who, with impressive fanfare, had just set out to dry up the trickling capital "as an example...
Tycoons. While the Bellhops hopped, the major figures of the U.S. delegation pursued more august courses. J. Pierpont Morgan spent part of the week with Parisian vendors of nearly priceless medieval illuminated manuscripts. Tycoons Owen D. Young and his alternate, Thomas Nelson Perkins, sped out to Cherbourg to meet the Olympic and their wives. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament kept up their round of smart dinners, many with artists and litterateurs of the left bank...
Unemployment. In electioneering on the major issue of unemployment, the Labor Leader, James Ramsay MacDonald, is promising nowadays into many a microphone that if returned to the Prime Ministry, which he held in 1924, he will nationalize coal and related industries, and operate them to provide work at a living wage for the jobless. Meanwhile jaunty David Lloyd George, the Welsh Wizard of Liberalism, waves his empty silk hat and promises (TIME, March 25) to conjure out of it enough borrowed money to keep all the unemployed busy on road building and public works for five years. The steady-going...
...tour is being made under the auspices of the Young Australia League and is personally conducted by Major J. J. Simons, founder and honorary director of the league. Arriving in Boston on Monday, after a week's stay in New York, the boys, ranging in age from 14 to 18 years, were received at the State House by Governor Allen, and since then various entertainment's have been given in their honor. They are in Boston as guests of the Rotary Club...
...Died. Major General Daniel Appleton, 77. of North Andover, Mass., retired publisher (D. Appleton & Co. of Manhattan was founded by his grandfather Daniel Appleton in 1825); at a sanatorium in White Plains, N. Y., where he had been ill for four years...