Word: town
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traveler from Washington to Cape Town, Union of South Africa, must journey 11,136 miles if he goes by London; 8,034 miles if he goes direct. To clip 3,102 miles off the diplomatic distance between Washington and Cape Town, to bring the U. S. A. and the U. S. A. into closer relation, steps were taken last week for an exchange of ministers such as the U. S. now conducts with Canada and Irish Free State. The U. S. approved the appointment of Eric H. Louw as South Africa's first envoy to Washington...
Washington considered Ralph James Totten, Consul-General at Cape Town, as a likely U. S. Minister to South Africa...
...deported. The Dago fishermen and their families were driven to the mainland, herded across Russia, stopped for a time in southern Russia, settled at last in the Ukraine, out of sight and out of mind of Great Catherine. Here the Swedish exiles founded Gammal- Svenksby-Old Swedish Town. For over 125 years they and their descendants have raised wheat, cultivated vineyards, and all that time have kept their Swedish language, their Swedish tradition, their Swedish Protestant religion. Of late hard times have come to the little colony. Last week every one of the Gammal-Svenksby exiles returned to Sweden...
Their coming was a proud moment for Pastor Hoas, pastor of the Gammal-Svenksby church. Six months ago he arrived in Stockholm. He told how the coming of the Soviets had brought poverty and distress to Old Swedish Town. How the Bolsheviks had closed his church. How they had taxed the little farms nearly out of existence. How the Gammal-Svenksby exiles had no shoes, little food, few clothes, and how they longed to return to the Sweden their ancestors had left. He saw and particularly impressed the King's brother, Prince Karl, Duke of Vastergottland...
...Sketchbook (TIME, July 15) with seekers of chorus girls, guffaws and 4-4 time. Its writers include A. E. Thomas, playwright, Rube Goldberg and Ring W. Lardner, funnymen. It will serve to frame fat, raucous Trixie Friganza and Jimmy Savo, small comic. A modernized version of A Temperance Town, oldtime comedy by Charles Hoyt, will include incidental tunes. George M. Cohan will smilingly assume the stage as author and actor in Gambling...