Word: state
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other two regents: Patriarch Miron Cristea of the Rumanian Orthodox Church, a venerable graybeard who barely survived a desperate illness last month; and sprightly Prince Nicholas of Rumania, a younger son of Dowager Queen Marie who minds his mother in matters of state but sometimes ignores her injunctions not to frequent night clubs...
...little dictator. Count Stephen Bethlen, who ignored them. Seemingly last week the Patriarch of Prague was unsheathing against Count Bethlen the same bright weapon of open propaganda openly arrived at which he wielded mightily during the War until the Powers agreed that Czechoslovakia ought and must become an independent state. Like his good friend Herbert Clark Hoover, Thomas Garrigue Masaryk works by mobilizing public opinion behind "the moral and spiritual values." Last week he declared, according to Dr. Rajniss, that Czechoslovakia is ready...
...Kansas State Board of Health also pronounced on kissing last week, issued a guide for kissers. Among other "don'ts" were the following: 1) Never kiss in a crowd, but if you must, take a hot mustard foot bath and avoid drafts if you feel "all in" afterward; 2) guard against sudden changes in temperature when kissing; 3) at a party where "postoffice" and similar games are played, be sure to gargle frequently...
...with individual incomes exceeding $50,000. Most of them spend three lavish months a year in Paris, three decorous months at their massive Baroque mansions in Rio de Janeiro, and the remaining half year supervising their estates. Most of these rich men hail from Sāo Paulo, "The State With a Billion Coffee Trees," which produces over half the world's crop. Most of them believe firmly in the efficacy of a combination in restraint of trade to keep prices high. For over two decades they have been perfecting a combination-really a gigantic, cooperative Coffee Trust-which...
Inevitably Sāo Paulo's bonanza prosperity caused other Brazilian states to go in heavily for coffee planting, spurred by the lure of high prices created by Sāo Paulo's artificial restraint of trade. As these new plantations have come into production it has proved steadily harder to keep the price of coffee up. Pressure by the potent planters on the Brazilian Government forced the adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until...