Word: ultras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago Roy Asa Haynes, double-chinned champion of the ultra-Drys, was appointed Acting Prohibition Commissioner (TIME, April 4) to the rousing cheers of the Anti-Saloon League. Last week the victory of the League, the Dry stand of President Coolidge, the humiliation of General Lincoln C. Andrews* turned out to be equivocal. Treasury orders were issued to the effect that Commissioner Haynes must have each order approved by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews before it is issued...
...Carillo, able Mexican composer of ultra-modern music, first presented his system through the League of Composers at the Town Hall, Manhattan, March 13, 1926. Last week's performance, was the first time his work has been actively endorsed by a leading Symphony Orchestra, was the first presentation of his ideas in a work of symphonic scope...
...mile motorcycle sprint is only a fair day's run-and 200 miles approximately suffice to cross Belgium from one side to the other in any direction. Beloved, fearless, King Albert of the Belgians usually motorcycles completely unattended. His newest mount is a recently developed British machine of ultra high power and speed...
Eight years ago Dr. Abbott was "Bott" Abbott to Yale oarsmen- their head coach in 1918-19. In 1917 he had organized the Yale Naval Unit. Before that he was famed as a professor of Greek and Latin at ultra-conservative Groton School, to which he went, with his bride, in 1897. Further back are his Nova Scotia birth, his training at King's College (Windsor, N. S.) and Worcester College, Oxford...
Today those ultra-conservative news organs, the London and the New York Times, sneak, though with reluctance, of Vladimir Ilvich Ulyanov Lenin as a man whom History will dub "The Great." But biographers would reflect: A child, he was one of the six children of a starved schoolmaster. A man, he lived for years expatriate and struggling outside the country he loved. A Power, he died paralyzed and speechless...