Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris of Japan' splendrous old Kyoto, still the citadel of Buddhist culture, came three smart sons last week. They were John Davison Rockefeller III; Malcolm MacDonald, scion of Britain's peace-potent, peripatetic Prime Minister; and Lady Nancy Astor's studious William. Came also some 200 other notables to the third biennial session of the Institute of Pacific Relations...
Last night he was to start on a trip that would have taken him to Ann Arbor and fame and . . . temporary financial case. During the Prime Minister's recent visit to this country the Vagabond completed the coup of his lifetime. Negotiations were brought to a successful conclusion which would have enabled the Vagabond to outshine even his distinguished rival, Mr. Richard Halliburton...
...useless," thundered Prime Minister Mussolini, celebrating on the morrow the seventh anniversary of the march on Rome, "and it may be even dangerous to attempt to disturb this divine harmony which runs from the King and from the heir to the Throne to the last peasant in our humblest village...
Favored as the prime floral gift, the orchid has been an object on which many a Wall Street dollar has been spent. Last week, however, to the orchid industry went 2,500,000 Wall Street dollars, not squandered, but carefully invested. The investors were Selected Industries, Inc., an investment company headed by R. S. Revnolds and the affiliated Reybarn Co., both of which are units in the $200,000,000 group of holding companies headed by Chas. D. Barney & Co. The investment was the purchase of Thomas Young Nurseries, Inc., of Bound Brook...
Died. Vasil Radoslavoff, 75, War Prime Minister of Bulgaria; at Berlin. For nearly a year he kept Bulgaria neatly juxtaposed between alliance with the Central Powers and the Allies. In 1915 when his country declared war on Serbia, he was elated that "Bulgaria was coming in on the winning side." For his part in involving Bulgaria in the War, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court at Sofia. He escaped to Germany and last July, never having returned to serve the sentence, was granted amnesty (TIME, July...