Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Events of Tour. Prime Minister Baldwin was careful to repeat the general substance of his appeal to Canadians to buy Empire goods whenever he spoke in public last week; but there were other and less stereotyped features of his tour and the simultaneous jaunt* of Edward of Wales and his brother Prince George...
...scientist and altogether likeable. I enjoy being behind him in such enterprises." Said Commander Richard E. Byrd: "Both the Fords are fine people. Henry Ford is great because he dreams and has ideals and puts them into practice. It was a wonderful experience to talk with him." Each spoke after a conference in Detroit after which Edsel Ford said he would help financially to back a Byrd flight over the South Pole as he helped back him to the North Pole. The South Pole trip was postponed...
Earlier in the week Signer Turati spoke kindling words to an open air Fascist gathering at Ravenna. It was Signor Turati, of course, who replaced the reputed terrorist Roberto Farinacci as Secretary General of the Fascist Party (TIME, April 12, 1926) ; and at that time Augusto Turati's policies were rated "conservative" and "conciliatory." His speech last week was instructive as an example of the pugnacity which even a "moderate" Fascist statesman must display...
Leonard Wood, exceedingly feeble and emaciated, thoroughly ill, in Manhattan last week ignored himself as usual and spoke, not as the Governor General of the Philippine Islands, not as the retired major general of the U. S. Army, but as the doctor of medicine that he also is. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1884. An interne in a hospital where internes were forbidden to perform operations, he successfully operated on a child in an emergency and was dismissed for infraction of rules. He joined the Army as an assistant surgeon (1886). He served as medical and line...
...announcing the joint Chicago meeting of those "outlaw" groups condensed all its scorn and contempt into a single paragraph. Under the headline "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" it shouted out names: "No doubt Chicago merits this visitation as a return for its sins. In 1925, the Journal spoke briefly relative to the American Association for Medico-Physical Research, a society organized in 1911 by the outstanding quack of the century, Albert Abrams. The organization was an outgrowth of the American Association for Spondylo-therapy, the term 'spondylo' referring to the spine and not to the good old American word...