Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, the Raab-Katzenstein airplane makers hitched a motorless glider to the tail of a regular plane. To the tail of that glider they hitched a second glider. This "train"-the air equivalent of a motor truck with tandem trailers-taxied across the field and managed to take off, the plane tugging, the gliders lunging after. Soon the "train" straightened out in smooth flight and without difficulty attained an altitude...
...really rich and potent tycoon likes the idea of sitting on a "sub-committee," and so last week the three sub-committees of the second Dawes Committee-now sitting in Paris to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.)-were rechristened "Informal Groups...
Baron Revelstoke appeared as rapporteur for his informal group before a secret session of the second Dawes Committee and made an oral statement* understood to be in substance...
...Socialists!" warned Mr. Baldwin-and by these he meant the leaders of Britain's second largest party (Laborite) -"The Socialists with their program of nationalize major industries would stifle the spirit of British enterprise. They would reduce our people to a dead level. They would make them as marionettes dancing to the dictation of officials-a dance of death so far as progress in our nation is concerned. They would make a bureaucratic machine and drive out of this country men of enterprise in whatever class they might be, who would go to the United States or the Dominions...
...popular Archbishop of Paris, they found him in the best possible humor. He had just carried to Pope Pius XI, he said, a check for a half-million francs ($19,500). At first the Holy Father would not take it, but Cardinal Dubois gently proffered the sum a second time, and finally Pope Pius turned the check over to the Papal treasury, with instructions that it be used to relieve Catholic priests in Mexico, many of whom are homeless and impoverished due to the suppressive measures of Mexican President Emilio Fortes Gil (TIME, March 4 et ante...