Word: returning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official accusers. The charge against him was grand larcency. Senora Vincenta Garcia had bought some lots from him, had failed to pay for them. When he sought to recover them, she charged she was being cheated. The Judicial Police advised him that "Cuba would feel happier if he would return to the U. S. and stay there, thus avoiding trouble and unpleasantness...
...tongues of Mayor Hague's enemies clacked. He had, they said again, transferred his wealth to England where he has a house (TIME, May 27). He would, they predicted, never return to the U. S. to risk the outcome of a U. S. Supreme Court verdict such as Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair received for refusing to answer the U. S. Senate. But he said: "I'll be back this fall. . . . I'll never retire from politics...
...Richard Evelyn Byrd and his mates in Little America, Antarctica, saw the sun again as southern hemisphere spring approached. Commander Byrd hoisted the U. S. flag?also British and Norwegian flags?for the first time since April and said: "This is a big day for us, because of the return of the sun, and a bigger day because it is Larry's [Laurence McKinley Gould, second-in-command] birthday." Wrote Russell Owens, official correspondent (New York Times]: "The ice cliffs sparkled like gigantic mirrors winking back a message of welcome to the sun as if there was some secret understanding...
...England. In the first act, the King resists the attempts of his Cabinet to deprive him of the right of veto. In the second, he talks tediously with his mistress. In the third, he is approached by the U. S. Ambassador and informed that the U. S. wishes to return to the British Empire-to absorb it. Shaw eventually postulates his thesis, which is a criticism of democracy most succinctly expressed in the somewhat muddled Shavianism spoken by King Magnus to his Queen: "America is a nation of wops talking about the Pilgrim Fathers ... it is a world of wops...
...Angeles, oldest of dirigibles (five years), made repeatedly successful tests over New Jersey and New York carrying a plane slung from a trapeze under the hull. The plane would detach itself, fly about, return to the trapeze. The dirigibles which Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is preparing to build for the Navy at Akron will be fitted not only to carry planes similarly but also to haul them into her hull. Values of the procedure are: in war, dirigibles might carry swift planes to scenes of action; after sortie the planes could return to the mother ship for fuel, ammunition, sleep...