Word: oct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the Colorado State Penitentiary at Canon City, Col, officials last week discovered a ten-foot tunnel dug by convicts since last month's deadly riot (TIME, Oct. 14). In the tunnel were found sledges, drills, crowbars, powder. Alarmed, the officials searched the entire prison, found 300 lbs. of daggers, stilettos, blackjacks, clubs, saws, knives made from files ?all the makings of another violent outburst...
...Bethlehem Chapel of the unfinished Washington Cathedral gathered 94 Protestant Episcopal Bishops, to elect a successor to the late Presiding Bishop John Gardner Murray (TIME, Oct...
Direction, Procedure, Powers. On these three points the Statute released last week merely confirmed earlier official announcements (TIME, Oct. 28). The Chairman of the Bank will be elected by a Board composed of representatives of the central banks and of Messrs. X and Y. Mere ownership of shares carries no voting rights. These rest permanently with the members of the Board "in proportion to the number of shares subscribed in each country" according to Article...
...Widows Pension Bill (TIME, Oct. 28) passed after an all-night debate lasting 18 hours which resulted in the altering of exactly one word in the original text...
...unknown frugal Yorkshireman remembered Poet Philips' splendid shilling fortnight ago, and the Miltonic disasters that, according to ensuing stanzas, the lack of it entailed. Further he remembered that tousle-headed eight-year-old King Mihai of Rumania had just been given his first pair of long trousers (TIME, Oct. 28). To a Birmingham newspaper he sent a shiny new shilling piece and a note, addressed to the King of Rumania...