Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bunk." When he got back last week to his large Washington office on the seventh floor of the old Southern Railway Building one block from his room at the Willard Hotel, Chairman Legge summoned newsmen and told them what he thought. Said...
...Church of England.* The Archbishop told the Bishop something exalting: the Church of England has formally decided to recognize the Protestant Episcopal Church as the first Colonial Branch of the Mother Church, and to promote the Presiding Bishop from sixteenth place in the Anglican hierarchy to the seventh. Henceforth in Anglican processions Bishop Perry and his successors in office will march after the personages representing Canterbury, York, Armagh, Dublin, Brechin, Wales. The Protestant Episcopal Church so far has had no eminent title of archbishop. But in England last week, laity were addressing Presiding Bishop Perry as "Most Reverend," the archiepiscopal...
...Senate shall be given to the ratification of a treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armaments signed at London . . . Now, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires that Senate to convene . . . on the seventh day of July at 12 o'clock noon...
...daughter of a Manchester butcher, won the 750-mi. free-for-all handicap, took her place on a popular pedestal beside Amy Johnson, London-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2). Betting odds against Miss Brown were 49-to-1. In her AvroAvian biplane she started 14th, pulled up to seventh at Bristol, third at Manchester, disposed of Waghorn and Orlebar on her way to Newcastle. Her average speed...
...American pictures. Pictures that we Americans see and soon forget. Pictures from which our foreign friends form their conception of the average American life. The ordinary picture fan out here sees our fair America-not once, but some fifty or sixty times each year-as a place where every seventh door is a speakeasy, where racketeers and gangsters clean the streets of all humanity every day, where all stock transactions are crooked, where each college is just four years of drinking, where each dance is a brawl and each marriage a failure. Is it not possible to export pictures which...