Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caillaux (his second wife) shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro. It was established that she acted to protect herself and her husband from the publication by Le Figaro of documents tending to demonstrate their mutual moral turpitude at an earlier period and his current civil dishonesty. Though infuriated mobs attempted to lynch them both in the streets, Mme. Caillaux escaped conviction. So abysmal was their disgrace that his few remaining influential friends rushed him out of France on a flimsily concocted "mission" to South America...
...desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Under present conditions the coal mining industry could not support the miners' standard of living unless they would work an extra hour. He proposed merely to suspend for perhaps three years the Seven Hours Act. During that period the coal industry could be put upon its feet by carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.). The Government's offer of a ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) coal subsidy was still open. It might be better, however, to expend that...
...Soviet foreign trade monopoly. Concerning these activities Mr. Reeve Schley, a vice-president of the Chase National Bank of Manhattan, is quoted: "The Chase National Bank has been doing business with Russian organizations here and in Russia for the past two years (1924 to date). . . . Our experience during this period has been entirely satisfactory...
...Atheism, found his way into public prints last week. Experiments were to be conducted, he said, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to "support" Evolution by breeding apes with humans. Soviet Russia had contributed $10,000. A total of $100,000 was needed over a period of years. Eminent Professor Elie Ivanoff of Moscow had already departed for Africa to make preparations...
...separately figuring the probable dividends of the companies which constitute this group. Last week their collated, estimates showed that, for the six months ending June 30, the score and more constituent companies would disburse $91,594,211 in dividends, far more than the $77,244,753 for the same period last year. The dividends for only April, May and June of this year- $50,792,688-will aggregate almost as much as for all of 1912. Deaths. The American Road Builders' Association announced that 30,400 people were slain last year throughout the world by automobiles. Of the fatalities...