Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have to start buying U. S. grain. To spike this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge responsibility as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine. With all the emphasis at his booming command Saul G. Bron said: "Regardless of all difficulties and obstacles, one thing is clear to me, and that is that the harvest of 1927-28 has supplied the Soviet Union...
...Epic of Slavic History is at present on exhibition in Prague, Czechoslovakian capital, where a permanent gallery for it will soon be built. It is fitting that on the tenth anniversary of Czechoslovakian independence the country should possess such a Slavic shrine, a goal for pilgrims. Slavs have inspired the shrine, a Slav has peopled it with the painted legion of his forbears, Slavs will visit it with sympathy. But the scheme was fostered by an American, financed with U. S. money. The entrepreneur is grey-haired, goateed Charles Richard Crane, supposedly of Manhattan, in reality most traveled of Americans...
Sixteen years ago, when William Bramwell Booth succeeded his father, the late General William Booth, as commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, the younger Booth was presumed to have chosen his own successor in traditional Salvation Army fashion. The present incumbent, according to tradition, names his favorite brother or sister "in arms," writing his choice on a slip of paper, which he files with his solicitors, which is not opened until Death necessitates a substitution. But William Bramwell Booth's aides-de-camp would have done with the Booth dynasty. Although William Bramwell Booth has two sons, Generals...
...Radium Corp. who sued the company (TIME, June 4) and obtained annuities because of their luminous paint poisonings had absorbed mesothorium salts. The mesothorium made their bones decay. Dr. von Sochocky insisted that they would eventually recover, because the mineral would disintegrate within a few years. It is still present in the five...
Scientists believe that three-eyed reptiles are at present extinct. The stagnodon, a little lizard found on small New Zealand islands appears to be three-eyed, but the middle eye is in reality only vestigial...