Word: naming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drys, Consolidated, who began organizing last winter under "a unified plan . . . in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover" (TIME, March 11), elected officers last week and chose a name. Henceforth they will be known as the Co-operative Committee for Prohibition Enforcement. Their chairman is a Kentucky varnish-maker...
...British pedants applied a new name to the Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald- "thalassocrats," from Greek words meaning "sea" and ''power...
Last week a royal decree of spectacled Dictator-King Alexander changed the name of his country from The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, to The Kingdom of Jugoslavia. More vital to most Jugoslavians was another decree issued by King Alexander almost simultaneously. It looked forward to an imminent end of the royal dictatorship established on Christmas Day, 1928 (TIME, Jan. 14) and a return to parliamentary government. It altered the entire map of Jugoslavia by dividing the country into nine Banats or states, each Banat governed by a Banus appointed by the King. Historic names like Croatia...
...were Liberty editors, who hastened to deny the truth of her denial. Said Executive Editor Sheppard Butler: "Perhaps Miss Oelrichs has forgotten she wrote the story. We purchased it some months ago." Said General Manager Max Annenberg: "We will sue her . . . only ask minimum damages. We must clear the name of Liberty."-for Liberty had been accused before of taking liberties with signatures...
...ancient name of the Chinese city until recently known as Peking, but now properly referred to as Peping, was Yenching. Last fortnight many a U.S. educator and tourist, including John D. Rockefeller III, many a Chinese educator and student, traveled a few miles beyond the walls of Peping, witnessed the dedicatory ceremonies of Yenching University. Formed in 1917 by the consolidation of several Christian colleges, Yenching University represents the greatest single expression of U. S. educational philanthropy abroad...