Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Georgia, succeeded in getting the Senate Appropriations Committee to report a $25,000,000 increase in Prohibition funds. The Senator originally proposed $50,000,000, but the Committee halved the sum. The Senate as a whole has taken no action as yet on the proposal, which is a part of a current deficiency bill. Recently (TIME, Dec. 24) Wet Senator Bruce of Maryland suggested a $270,000,000 Prohibition appropriation, chiefly to focus popular attention on the amount necessary to enforce Prohibition properly. Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran once estimated that $300,000,000 a year would be a tidy...
George Cretziano, suave Rumanian Minister to the U. S., was ordered to swap posts with peppery Carol Davila, Rumanian Minister to Poland. The order was part of a general reshuffle of Rumanian diplomats, drastically begun last week by the new Peasant Prime Minister of Rumania, Juliu Maniu (TIME...
...list in part as compiled for The Ring International boxing magazine...
...build up healthy constitutions. Another factor is the tendency of athletes to overtrain, overstrain. "Athletic heart" is a frequent result, particularly among runners. Still another factor is the intelligence of present-day honor men. They are no longer bookworms, grinds, recluses. They are expected to. and do, take active part in collegiate activities, extracurricular and even extramural. Their alert intelligence guides them through a temperate life regime...
...cinemactors have ways of making money besides acting. Critic Regina Cannon (New York American) listed the extra-studio businesses of various stars: John Gilbert, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Meighan-financing real estate developments; Mary Pickford- banking; Karl Dane-raising chickens; Chester Conklin-raising turkeys; Bessie Love-dairy farming; Lon Chaney-part-ownership in a plumbing company; Constance Talmadge-manufacturing cold cream; Lew Cody-automobile agency and part-ownership in a barber shop; Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt-stockyards at Fresno, Calif.; Renee Adorée-French restaurant...