Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special symbol was assigned to "the indispensable word wangle" in the diplomatic code of the British Foreign Office, by imperative request of Colonel T. E. (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence (See Yemen...
...Every Pole believes, on account of the present protection which the Government gives to industry, that the Premier is his special clerk. All my dear Ministers were pleased to push all their work on to me. For this reason I learned to hate the office. The only way of escape was by resignation. . . . However, I told the President I should be available for service in critical times. The control of international Polish policies still remains in my hands." The Prime Minister of the new Cabinet, formed last week, is Dr. Kazimir Bartel, previously Vice-Prime Minister. Marshal Pilsudski continues...
Last week, only nine teams remained upon the floor. These, in the order of their apparent vigor and the amount of prize money which they received for special clowning dances, spinning, black bottoms, displays of beauty, good humor and other noteworthy feats, together with their orignal occupations and wages, were as follows...
...public by founding three tabloid newspapers, against the wishes of his family. He used on his masthead the phrase: "The public be served." Within two years, his tabloids (in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami) went bankrupt (TIME, May 10, 1926, et seq.]. Vanderbilt IV then functioned as special writer for the Hearst New York Mirror, appealed to the masses with sneering remarks about his family's plutocratic mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...
...celebrated last week his soth anniversary as publisher of his other newspaper, the Chattanooga, Tenn., Times. Fifty guests (including the president of the Advertising Club of New York, members of the Merchants' Association, Chamber of Commerce, and many a newspaperman) were transported from Manhattan to Chattanooga on a special Ochs train. A banquet at Lookout Mountain Hotel (new) and the official designation of Mr. Ochs as "Citizen Emeritus of Chattanooga" were features. The Chattanooga Times put out an edition of 160 pages (64 in rotogravure...