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Dates: during 1920-1929
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North of New England, the Province of Quebec reported millions in flood destruction. The rain fell there for three days steadily. Railways and shipping were disorganized in the upper Hudson Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: New England Flood | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Solicitor General. He is an officer of the Legion d' Honneur, a Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgian). Since a Vare-machine nomination is tantamount to election, President Charles B. Hall of the Philadelphia City Council announced: "With Senator Vare in the Upper House and Mr. Beck in the Lower House, added prestige will be given not only to our district but to the City of Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personages | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...technique in operations on cancer of the throat. Dr. Mackenty excised Senator du Pont's vocal cords, larynx and part of his tongue and windpipe. So that the senator could breathe, Dr. Mackenty cut a hole in the front wall of his neck and to it fastened the upper rim of his windpipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mechanical Larynx | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Massachusetts branch of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Associations Except for the doubtful precedent of The Hague, which proved to be not even an annoyance to the activities of Mars, the League has been forced to learn solely through its own mistakes. The Russo-Polish War, the Upper Silesla affair, the massacre at Smyrna the occupation of Corfu the Geneva protocol the Greco-Bulgarian frontier altercation, and the squabble during last year between Brazil and Spain have been the annual causes of "I told you sols" from the irreconcilables of post-bellum days: largely because the meetings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BY DEGREES | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...seasonal changes. The Weather Bureau is making a thorough investigation of sun-spot phenomena with a view to predicting the general characteristics of whole seasons. The precipitation of rain, the recurrence of storms, and electrical disturbances in the earth's atmosphere, depend to a large degree upon the upper atmosphere, and this in turn is directly responsive to solar convulsions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY WORKS ON STUDIES OF SUN | 10/28/1927 | See Source »

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