Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also in prison last week, not in Rightist Spain, but in France, lodged barrel-chested Major Julian Troncoso, Commandant of Irún, Franco agent on the French-Spanish border. Arrested for alleged connection with the subnapping episode fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 27), and the terrorist activities of a Rightist French secret society, Les Cagoulards (the Hooded Men) Major Troncoso boasted that Franco would retaliate with arrests of French consuls in his territory. Franco threatened the San Sebastián French consul with arrest, then capitulated, was reported to have booted out Major Troncoso as his Irún agent...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin, onetime ballroom dancer and fashionplate, now an antivivisectionist; from her third husband Major Frederic McLaughlin, millionaire coffee importer, owner of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team; charging cruelty, and asking custody of their twelve-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son; in Chicago. Mrs. McLaughlin's first husband and dancing partner, Briton Vernon Castle, was killed in 1918 while instructing U. S. students at a Texas flying school; her second, Capt. Robert E. Treman of Ithaca, N. Y., divorced...
Shiva is the Hindu god of destruction. Shiva Temple was so named by Major John Wesley Powell, leader of the first white man's march through the Grand Canyon in 1869. Some 300 acres in extent, the plateau towers 4,000 ft. above the canyon floor, 1,200 above a saddle which runs across to the canyon wall, twelve miles from the Grand Canyon railroad station. The butte is said by geologists to have been carved out by erosion between 12,000 and 35,000 years ago. First reports made it appear that the plateau on top was something...
...both Paris fashions and perfume. He too is in the U. S. drumming up trade but by different means. His rivals concede that he is doing a daring thing for a Paris dressmaker, for Marcel Rochas last week opened a Manhattan branch, the first such opened by a major French couturier...
...days to $1.1 6 a bu. it became apparent that shorts could not cover their obligations in time except at the longs' terms. Farmers National Grain Corp., leading U. S. grain co-operative and a leading short, formally complained to the Commodity Exchange Administration, charging "major manipulation." C.E. A. Chief J. W. T. Duvel cracked back with a stinging rebuke : "Every time there is a price rise or fall, there is an outcry from those who lose money." Two days later, however, having already tripled margins and taken the unusual step of ordering traders to reveal their market positions...