Word: oct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover sat at his desk, dictated a letter. His message was delivered not by post but by radio. He expressed hearty approval of nationwide "Constitution Week," designated Oct. 6 as the beginning of "Fire Prevention Week...
...leaving the Royal Navy last spring. Later he had to give up even desk work at the Foreign Office because of "digestive trouble" (TIME, July 29). Last week it was an nounced that prudent dieting has soothed and strengthened H. R. H.'s gastric ap paratus. On and after Oct. i he will be back again at his Foreign Office stint...
...Australia. Fortnight ago he worked a shrewd wangle in the Dominion Parliament, caused the defeat by one vote of the Cabinet of his bitter personal rival for leadership of the Nationalist Party, youthful Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce (TIME, Sept. 23). This made necessary a General Election called for Oct. 12. Delighted with his disruptive handiwork, Billy Hughes celebrated one night last week by attending at Sydney, Australia, what he said was his first wrestling match...
...quick, pleasing appeal is the plan of the Harvard Club of Boston to play host to the Yale Club of Boston at a special dinner which will be held in Harvard Hall on the night of Oct. 30. There is the making of history in such an occasion. It stands, within long memory, as the first of its kind ever known here. To be sure, local alumni associations of friendly colleges finding themselves assembled for their annual dinners on the same night in different rooms of the same hotel or club-building in Boston, have often exchanged gifts of good...
...game on Nov. 20 dedicating the new $1,000,000 Workers' Athletic field at Mexico City. The Sewanee team, which plays Tulane in New Orleans on Nov. 16, will proceed to Mexico City by rail and plane. The first U. S. v. Mexico game is scheduled for Oct. 5, between Louisiana College and the Uni versity of Mexico...