Word: six
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frenchman's bushy white beard begin to bristle. Colleagues had told him what had been said. M. Cheron rushed to the acting chairman of the session, Belgium's Baron Houtart, demanded that he obtain an apology. At Mr. Snowden's hotel, Baron Houtart had to wait some six hours before the Chancellor returned from his outing. Then with a sardonic grin, Philip Snowden wrote: "The words used . . . are not in the English language in any way offensive. . . . I did not know that in the French language they had any discourteous significance." Of course grotesque is exactly as offensive as "grotesque...
...World Zionist Organization. Fortnight ago, when 322 delegates gathered in Zurich for the 16th biennial Zionist congress, he was less happy. For he was the appointed spokesman of a great project and in the bearded assemblage he saw many a gleaming, antagonistic eye. The project (in motion for six years) was the foundation of an All-Jewish Union, embracing both Zionists and non-Zionists, for the upbuilding of Palestine. "A Jewish national home, . . ." said Dr. Weizmann, "is no longer the concern of Zionists alone. It must of necessity become a centre which attracts the energies of Jews everywhere...
...Manhattan, one Angelina del Vescovo, six, sat watching her aunt iron. A gust of wind blew a piece of paper in the window against the iron where it ignited, then into the child's lap. She died of burns...
...Market. Commuters on their trains last Friday morning discussed and laid grim bets on how far the Market would fall. The Los Angeles and San Francisco markets, still open on the previous afternoon when the Board's announcement was made, had crashed badly. Six hours ahead of New York, Friday's market at Amsterdam had opened with U. S. Steel plunging downward. To add to the threat of another Black Friday*; was the fact that brokers loans reached a new all time high, over six billion dollars. At the New York Stock Exchange, the gallery was packed with spectators...
...Just six weeks after Clarke Bros., private bankers, failed in Manhattan (TIME. July 22), the four partners appeared before this double court, pleaded guilty, were sentenced. James Rae Clarke, senior partner, assumed full responsibility for the crash. He was sentenced by the Federal Judge to eight years in the overcrowded Atlanta penitentiary for using the mails to defraud and for conspiracy. Philip L. Clarke, John R. Bouker and Hudson Clarke Jr. each received a sentence of one year, one day. The state judge imposed the same penalties but suspended sentence declaring that the Federal sentences served the cause of justice...