Word: oct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father, Thomas Alva Edison, will remain at his rubber experiments in Fort Myers, Fla., for the actual anniversary does not come until Oct. 21 and there are many things which Mr. Edison, aged 82, wants to crowd into his remaining years...
Rollin Kirby,New York World (Pulitzer paper) drew the best cartoon ("Tammany!"-showing famed Republicans, some in prison stripes, holding up their hands in horror-reproduced in TIME, Oct. 15)-$500 cash. It was Cartoonist Kirby's third Pulitzer prize...
...gift of Alumnus Briggs Cunningham. He bought and presented to the school the ring in which Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney defeated onetime world champion William Harrison Dempsey in Philadelphia (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926). It will be installed in the rambling gymnasium after the basketball season. Here many students, more paperweight than featherweight, will box, mimicking in miniature the giant punches of the champions who once battled there. Here too will box lusty footballers who later may lead teams at Wesleyan, Yale, Princeton...
...least favorable to the rival parties (Laborite & Liberal). He might spring a "surprise election" in early May, or dawdle along until late June. So long as docile Britons are called to cast their ballots within the legal period of five years after the present House of Commons was elected (Oct. 29, 1924), good Squire Baldwin has as much liberty of choice as a Dowager Duchess deciding in July which hymns her servitors will sing at Christmas...
...match concessions, it has lent money, bought securities from many impoverished governments. But Swedish Match is interested in matches, not money. And Swedish Match has an active and able financing company in the form of Kreuger & Toll Co., largest stockholder in Swedish Match, headed by Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger (TIME, Oct. 1). Last week, therefore, through a syndicate headed by Lee, Higginson & Co., Kreuger & Toll offered $50,000,000 debentures to acquire securities now owned by potent Swedish Match...