Word: p
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George's Church has intransigent traditions. One of Dr. Reiland's predecessors, Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (rector 1882-1906), had many a difference over church affairs with his senior warden John Pierpont Morgan (father of the present J. P.) and was finally forced to resign because of his too-liberal beliefs. After Dr. Rainsford's resignation, Financier Morgan presented him with a house in the country, near Ridgefield, Conn., where he still lives, snowy-haired, patriarchal, surrounded with trophies of his big-game hunts...
...Parliament; for 62 years he was a journalist. He was a wholehearted defender of the late great Thomas Parnell, imprudent Irish statesman. He gave George Bernard Shaw his first job as a music critic. Three weeks ago, illness forced him to suspend the last of his publications, T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly (TIME...
...will not be subscribed by their central banks?as in the case of Britain, France, Italy and Belgium?but, according to Article Six, by "Messrs. X, acting in place of the Bank of Japan, and Messrs. Y of New York." Of course "the Messrs. Y" will be J. P. Morgan & Co. Thus without putting up a cent the Federal Reserve?traditionally in closest touch with the House of Morgan ?will have a major "phantom stake" in the Bank. The same arrangement appealed to cautious, bespectacled Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who, by advice of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, prefers like...
...such planes. The builders expect that the first will be wrecked by the ineptitude of navigators with such a mighty machine. The lessons they learn in wrecking the first plane they can apply to flying the second. Each will have at least a dozen 1,000-h. p. motors, will be able to carry 500 passengers, 104 crew. Aerodynamic calculations suggest that they should be able to fly so high, so powerfully that reduced wind resistance will enable them to flit between Manhattan and London in six hours...
SPAN, FT. FT. MOTORS H. P...