Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serving his second term. Of his 60 odd pay checks received since taking office none has yet been cashed. At $5,000 a year they represent some $13,000. Governor Green's private wealth comes from a furniture factory...
TIME reported interestingly on the Boy Scout Convention in England, but failed to report ? or did I fail to see such report? ? on a larger and possibly more important meeting of young people, which occurred the second week of July in Vienna. Young workers of both sexes from many countries, 50,000 strong, met to demonstrate for world peace, for friendship among peoples, their slogan "Nie Mehr Krieg" (never more war). Taken in connection with the remark attributed to Ambassador Dawes, that war depends on the man in the street, this meeting of young socialists becomes truly significant...
...Northampton, first of its name in the U. S. Navy, and the Houston, second of its name, are the sixth and seventh of eight light cruisers authorized in 1924, laid down in 1928. Six hundred feet long, 65 feet broad, displacing 10,000 tons, they carry nine 8-inch guns, three to a turret. Each ship will be manned by 597 officers...
...Romano is the first child of my second series!" exclaimed the Dictator when the babe was born. Last week he said: "Anna Maria is the second child of my second series, which I intend to make a long one." Placed on scales, Babe Anna Maria was reported to weigh no less than eleven pounds. Pious Catholics rejoiced that her names are those of the Grandmother and the Mother of Jesus Christ...
...Manhattan-Dearborn Corp. The other news was sale of new stock by Chicago Investors' Corp. The directorates of these new invest ment trusts each represent a distinct "set" in Chicago finance. One represents the Loop.* the other the North Shore; one represents a self-made generation, the other a second generation of inherited wealth and social prominence. Loop Team (Manhattan-Dearborn Corp.) John Daniel Hertz, Austrian born, "re tired" at 50, is the man who brought the Yellow Cab to Chicago and collected a fortune from its clicking meters. Once he wrote about sportsmen for the Chicago Record (extinct...