Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People throughout the world last week looked and looked at pictures of "Captain Barker," the woman who long persuaded the British Army that she was Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, a "Mons man," a devoted husband, a first rate boxer (TIME, March...
...Frelsers Kirke. Norwegian radio men had hooked up in Oslo quite as many microphones as were used in Washington when Herbert Clark Hoover said, "I do" (TIME, March 11). Several announcers were posted in and about the Slot, more along broad Karl Johans Gade, and a whole battery in Vor Frelsers Kirke, the hoary Church of Our Saviour, where booming Lutheran Bishop Lunde would ask, "Saa til sparger jeg dig, Olaf, for Gud's assym og. I denne Kristne forsamlings nerverelse. vil du have Martha som hos dig staar til din egtehustrn...
...many as 60 bars, some as long as the Tiajuana bar, are erected each year for temporary use at Aintree, England, scene of the Grand National Steeplechase (TIME, March 18). Other bars which claimed to be the longest in the world were: the Atlantic Bar of Butte, Mont., where 24 bartenders catered to the miners: and the L-shaped Fritz & Russell bar of Portland, Ore. Seeking elite patronage, Fritz -& Russell used to advertise: "See the largest bar in the world, lined with the working giants of the woods, taking their glasses of beer and telling tales of the forest...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Atlanta, Ga., lawyer and family man, announced on his 27th birthday (March 17) that he would compete this year only in the U.S. amateur and open golf championships. In four out of the last five national amateur (match play) championships, Lawyer Jones has been victor. In five of the last six open (medal play) tournaments he has finished either first or second...
Money. Amadeo Peter Giannini of San Francisco (TIME, March 5, 1928) controls through his Trans-America Corp. the 117-year-old Bank of America National Assn., resources $416,000,000. Active, persistent is the rumor that it is to be acquired by the 52-year-old Chase National Bank, resources $1,430,000,000. The merged institution would be the peer, in size, of the National City Bank of New York, although not of the new Guaranty Trust Co.-National Bank of Commerce combination...