Word: tents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have excited public clamor and governmental disapproval. But a circus is not a necessity of life and there is a certain justice in the fact that there now undoubtedly exists that "Greatest Show on Earth," as which every circus has billed itself from the time when the first tent rose, on the first lot. Mr. Ringling will continue, however, to operate his various shows as separate units...
...trial grew out of a prolonged strike, led by Communist organizations, in textile mills about Gastonia (TIME, June 17). Long had bad blood brewed between strikers and police. Strikers, ejected from company homes, pitched a tent colony on the outskirts of town. On the night of June 7 Chief of Police Orville F. Aderholt had gone to this colony where a disturbance threatened. In the dark a fight started. Chief Aderholt was killed, three other peace officers wounded. Fifty persons were arrested. The 16 defendants before Judge Barnhill were those charged with the murder...
...airplane swooped down to the field. Out stepped Edward of Wales. Delighted at his presence, no Scout cared that he, Chief Scout of Wales, slept that night in a tent with pillow and mattressed bed, lavatory, boarded flooring...
...Scout Clifford Taylor, of Des Plaines, Ill., was cleaning fish. Suddenly he heard a cheer outside. Poking his head through the tent-flap, Scout Taylor was quick to recognize sparrow-legged U. S. Ambassador to England Charles Gates Dawes. No lavatory in his tent, Scout Taylor rushed out, fishy paws and all. Ambassador Dawes held out a clean white hand. "Afraid I can't shake hands," said the Scout, "I've been scaling fish." The Ambassador grinned, gripped the boys wrist...
This principle, formulated by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1870 when it ruled that the Army could not confiscate from Major Henry Hopkins Sibley his design for an Army tent, was upheld last week by Justice Wendell Holmes Stafford of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who directed the Government to pay Rear-Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske, retired, $198,500 or $500 each for 397 naval airplanes now using a torpedo-discharging device originally Fiske-designed, Fiske-patented...