Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drew up, Emperor Hirohito stepped nimbly down, as though nothing had happened, and was received by members of the Kizokuin (House of Peers) and the Shugiin (Commons), standing at stiff attention in the open air. Soon, beneath the vault of Heaven, the Son of Heaven pronounced in high, piercing, rapid syllables the traditional Four Sentences, opening Parliament...
Last week Chinese students at Nanking got out of patience even with the rapid progress now being made by Foreign Minister Dr. C. T. Wang. They knew that he was negotiating with Japanese Consul General Shichitaro Yada; and they thought both negotiators a little too polite and slow. Suddenly student exuberance boiled over, and a mob rushed to hurl brickbats and curses at the walls which sheltered Dr. Wang and M. Yada. Loomed a diplomatic incident of gravest sort. Only quick action by one of the Nationalist "Big Three"-Chiang, Feng or Yen (TIME, Dec. 24)-could stop the brickbatting...
...Rapid increase in Negro churches throughout the north during the last ten years was shown by a bulletin of the Census Bureau last week. The report states that there were 42,585 Negro churches in the U. S. in 1926, with a membership...
Manufacturers' Trust was formed in 1905 as Citizens' Trust Co. of Brooklyn (capital $500,000). Under the leadership of Founder Nathan S. Jonas, and with the assistance of his brother, Ralph Jonas, head of Financial and Securities Industrial Corp., the bank's expansion was rapid. Many a small bank was acquired by the Financial Corp., then transferred to the family bank. After the acquisition of the Manufacturers' National Bank, Citizens' Trust became (1916) Manufacturers' Trust...
...Many a fable has been told of James Patten, onetime grain operator, who died in Evanston, Ill., last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 17), but no fabulous fortune did his will reveal. His estate was valued at $20,000,000; his investments, sound, shrewd, included stocks in Chicago Daily News; Chicago Rapid Transit; Commonwealth Edison; First National Bank, Chicago; Pullman, Inc.; Swift & Co.; 20 Wacker Drive Building Corp. Estate income goes mainly to Widow Amanda Louise Patten. Upon her death, estate will be divided, one half to charity, one half between Son John L. Patten, Daughter (Mrs.) Agnes Patten Wilder of Santa...