Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Special Mission has as his chief assignment one of three Indian super-potentates who are entitled to a salute of 21 guns. These are (see cuts, p. 22): first, the venerable dean of the Indian Princes, His Highness the progressive and benign Gaekwar of Baroda; second, the acquisitive and stern "Richest Man in the World," His Exalted Highness, the also progressive and enlightened Nizam of Hyderabad; and third, the weak and pleasure-loving Prince who was the victimized "Mr. A" of a notorious blackmail case in England twelve years ago (TIME, Oct. 25, 1925 et ante), His Highness the polo...
...another big Manhattan store, Franklin Simon & Co. Like Bonwit Teller, Frank lin Simon is a collection of women's specialty shops, not a department store. Founded in 1902 by the son of a Manhattan cigar maker who started at 13 as a sample boy with Manhattan's Stern Brothers, Franklin Simon was the first big Fifth Avenue store above 34th Street. As Stern's foreign buyer, Simon became impressed by French style. When he opened his own store, he picked a Frenchman for his original partner, picked French clothes as his specialty. By 1925 Franklin Simon...
...Bernon S. Prentice '05, in memory of his two classmates Phillip Overon Mills and George William son 12,600.00 Neal Rantoul '92, for the "Rantoul Scholarship" preferably for "a graduate student engaged in the study of abnormal and dynamic psychology." 25,000.00 Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Stern, for a Harvard National Scholarship preferably for a student from Louisiana 26,118.75 Jesse Isidor Straus '93, and Percy S. Straus '97 25,000.00 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Osborn Taylor 25,000.00 Frederick M. Warburg '19, for "The Henry C. Flower, 3d, National Scholarship" 25,021.00 Phillip W. Wrenn...
...citizens tempted by roadside signs offering SIGHTSEEING FLIGHTS- FIVE MINUTES FOR ONLY $1 last week had a stern object lesson. Taking off at night from a Pittsburgh airport with ten passengers who had each paid $1, a trimotored Stinson belonging to Pittsburgh Skyways, Inc., a sightseeing firm, had flown but two miles toward a nearby fair when two motors apparently failed. Plunging into a clump of thicket in inaccessible Buttermilk Hollow, it gushed a fountain of flame which incinerated the pilot, all except one passenger, a girl who jumped at the last minute before the crash, miraculously escaped injury...
...Nahlin, kept vainly radioing ashore that the King was traveling incognito as the Duke of Lancaster. Nevertheless, the next Balkan fortress passed would blaze away a 21-gun royal salute. The Duke of Lancaster delighted during the week to slip off the Nahlin with Mrs. Simpson, she in the stern and he at the oars of a skiff...