Word: oct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resigned, gracious swish of her mourning veils. But last week everyone knew that Her Majesty hoped to be elected one of the three Regents of her grandson Boy-King Mihai, in succession to Regent George V. Buzdugan who died fortnight ago of uremia and inflammation of the lungs (TIME, Oct...
Sometimes a President may prudently say what he dare not write and publish. Last week tall, patriarchal President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, potent Father of His Country (founded Oct. 18, 1918 when Czechoslovakia was recognized by the Allies), spoke privily and at length to a Hungarian of utmost probity, Dr. Franz Rajniss, chief of the Social Institute at Budapest. Returning home in high excitement Dr. Rajniss declared that President Masaryk had outlined to him a series of remarkable proposals for settling the acute Hungarian minorities question which arose when Czechoslovakia received after the War some 14,000 square miles of territory...
...months' hibernation. Dog sledges had started making caches for way stations along his route to the Pole. His two planes had endured the winter well in their snow houses. Mechanics were going over them. The men were working hard but they had a holiday coming to them. On Oct. 25 they would pause to celebrate Commander Byrd's 41 st birthday...
...happened in the current series of Victor Herbert revivals. Sweethearts had passed uneventfully (TIME, Oct. 7). Then Mlle. Modiste was advertised with Fritzi Scheff to sing the role she created 24 years ago. Oldsters could scarcely believe the newspapers and the great electric sign which flashed outside the theatre. But they bought tickets just the same, and went and wept and cheered. For Fritzi Scheff, now 50, still gives the illusion of sprightly youth, still plays the snare drums as the mascot of the troops, still sings bewitchingly "Kiss Me Again." Moist-eyed oldsters marveled and reminisced...
While this decision will keep Midcontinent production stabilized, there were many oilmen who disagreed with President Reeser's prediction that it will settle U. S. overproduction. Drilling in California is expected to bring in new supplies, and constitutionality of the State Conservation Law (TIME, Oct. 14) is being questioned. Government reports last week indicated that while 3,000,000 acres are in production, there are 22,000,000 acres of unproved oil land. There is no satisfactory protection against these fields being opened and operated. In storage is enough oil to furnish the U. S. demands even...