Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorities have known of the organization from the very first. Recently the chief of the organization called two night meetings to which members were asked to come armed. After such a proceeding had taken place in defiance of the law the authorities decided to arrest these persons...
Last week, however, John North Willys disappeared from the automobile world with the sale of his entire Willys-Overland holdings (some 800,000 shares of common). Nor did any one individual take his place. Purchasers were a combination of Chicago and Toledo interests. The Chicago interest was Field, Glore & Co., acting for Chicago Corp., the Midwest investment trust organized last winter (TIME, Feb. 25). Election of Charles F. Glore and Marshall Field III to the Willys-Overland directorate will be one immediate result of the transaction. The Toledo purchasers were headed by George M. Jones, wealthy head of Toledo...
...Bishop of Utah and a specially appointed Commission of the House of Bishops met in a house in Vandeventer Place, St. Louis. Outside moaned the wind, snow flurried in the streets. The Commission sat alone. Bishop Jones was in an-other room but the Commission knew they might speak to him "whenever occasion demanded." They wrote answers to a series of questions which Bishop Jones, silent in the other room, had submitted to them...
...questioned that war was the right method, and, therefore, since he was in conflict with his government and his Church, lost his diocese. Today the Protestant churches are pacifistic. No longer, therefore, does the onetime Bishop of Utah seem dangerous to Episcopalians, Queried the Churchman: "Is there no place in the ministry of the Episcopal Church for Paul Jones...
...Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Chicago. Track. Last week's was the ninth track meet between Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge. Each had won four of the eight meets preceding. Yale-Harvard was doubly pleased to win the ninth. Of the twelve events, Oxford-Cambridge took first place in only four - 120-yard high hurdle, 880-yard run, running broad jump, running high jump. Big stars were two Yale men, long Sid Kieselhorst, little Charlie Engle, each with two firsts. Worried were the Britishers as they left Cambridge, Mass., afterward to prepare for a meet the next Saturday with Princeton-Cornell...