Word: six
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doukhobor protests have been frequent in the Northwest this summer. Last week 103 "Dukes" and "Duchesses" had to be sentenced to six months at hard penal labor for parading at Nelson, B. C. At Canora, Sask., 60 more were incarcerated...
...told whom to invite by the governors of the respective banks of issue who all chose financiers from within their own organizations. Thus keen, patrician Montagu Collet Nor:nan, Governor of the Bank of England, chose a famed member of its board, Sir Charles Stewart Addis, sire of six sons, seven daughters. A leading director, of the great Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Sir Charles has interests throughout ; Asia, is chairman of :the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank of London. He succeeded the late Baron Revelstoke as junior British representative of the Young Plan Committee (TIME, April...
...Dominion Parliament, thus necessitating a general election. Swan Song. Flushed and angry was the mien of Prime Minister Bruce as he stood up before Parliament in the new Australian Capital of Canberra to announce that the election will be held Oct. 12. He had been in power for six years. Now from the Opposition benches rose shouts of "This is your swan song, Bruce!" Perhaps it was. But if he loses the Prime Ministry after the election Mr. Bruce will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that he failed in trying to solve a problem which has baffled every...
Aside from the d'Abernon visit, the great event in Argentina, last week, was the end of a cataclysmic six-month drought. Both the flax and wheat crops were on the point of utter ruin. Grazing grass had withered and died. Ranchers had petitioned for Government aid to buy fodder and save their cattle...
...match play, Tremayne, Wise, Balding and Earle W. Hopping of the U. S. formed the Eastcotts, lost six out of seven discouraging practice games. In the first game of the Monty Waterbury Cup series, also begun last week at Westbury, and in importance second only to the Open, the National Junior Championship youngsters who call themselves the Old Aikens trounced them 16-8. Old Aikens' victory coupled with the early elimination of the Englishmen in the Open series discouraged polo-observers from predicting formidable 1930 opposition from overseas...