Word: trips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unquestionably the trip to Paris, where King Alexander conferred secretly with that stern greybeard Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, marked the turning-point in the royal career. Jugoslavia is the "little ally" of France, and the statesmen at Paris have been repeatedly vexed by the notorious instability of the Parliament in Belgrade?an instability which became anarchy last summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincaré recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home...
...Coolidge, Shepley, Abbott, and Bullfinch to a Wellesley contractor who was making estimates for the water-proofing of the proposed building. The contractor admitted losing the plans, which he believed to have mislaid on the train, as they had been rolled up on the seat beside him during the trip. A warrant has been sworn out for John King, alias John Doe, but no trace of the culprit had been found up to late last night...
...bail, which they could not raise. Then the prosecutor, Assistant U. S. Attorney Louis S. Joel, delayed the hearing while he looked for "missing" witnesses. The trio remained in jail while Mr. Hoover was received in Miami, while he proceeded to Belle Isle, while he embarked on a fishing trip...
...private and commercial exploitation. Some twoscore aircraft companies are making small planes for private gadabouting. Less than a dozen are important manufacturers of great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip, the greater their profits. Fokker and Ford-Stout certainly have the lead in transport manufacture. Close to them is Loening, who makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development has been retarded by constant experiments for new designs. Fokkers, Ford-Stouts, Loenings and Sikor skys carry usually a dozen...
...propositions which the Harvard teams will support in the Spring trip have also been determined by the Council. The most popular is the following subject: "Resolved, That modern woman is a curse." The other two subjects are: "Resolved, That 'loyalty' is the curse of the American college," and "Resolved, That the present jury system should be abolished." These subjects were chosen after much discussion on the part of the Council, which determined the subjects for all the coming debates at a recent meeting