Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge School of the Drama, sponsors of "The Adventures of Prince Achmed," these presentations mark a departure from the field of legitimate drama, this film being its first venture into the field of motion pictures...
Between Messrs. Russell & King and Secretary Bonner had long raged a war of power policy. Solicitor Russell was intent upon squeezing what he claimed was "water" from the capitalization of private power companies. No less zealous was Accountant King in making them toe the financial mark. The complaints of these two against Secretary Bonner and their disclosures of the old Commission's methods before the Senate Interstate Commerce Commission were largely responsible for subsequent legislation to reorganize the Federal Power Commission on a full-time non-Cabinet basis (TIME, March 10). The discharge of Messrs. Russell and King, stirred...
Curiously, it was in a jail that the year's end found the little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all. It was exactly twelve months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Indian National Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence (TIME, Jan. 13). It was in March that he marched to the sea to defy Britain's salt tax as some New Englanders once defied a British tea tax. It was in May that Britain jailed Gandhi at Poona. Last week he was still there, and some...
...Mark's In-the-Bouwerie in similar fashion, concluded that the vault-batterers had intended to hold a Vanderbilt body for ransom. Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence (alias Aircraftsman Shaw), soldier of fortune and author (The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Revolt in the Desert), was dis covered to be translating Homer's Odyssey into English verse. Augusta, Ga. is booming its winter-resort possibilities. A committee was formed to co-ordinate all sports (golf, polo, tennis, horse shows, race meets, baseball). The chairman: Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, oldtime American League baseballer (Detroit...
...thing, inter-sectional games should have no place on the Tiger's schedule. The gold nugget in the H--Y--P President's Agreement of the early twenties was its ban on inter sectionalism: and the Princetonian of that day hailed the passing of cross-country rivalry "as a mark of progress." We lament its return as a mark of regress, and predict that in the far distant, but far saner future only natural rivals will do battle...