Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flocking, pushing, stepping on toes, upsetting policemen, trampling shrubbery, scores of thousands of Roman Catholics moved in a long line which surged and babbled but scarcely dwindled all week long?not to get into a football stadium or a prizefight arena, but to see and if possible touch the tombstone of a priest, the Rev. Father Patrick J. Power in Holy Cross Cemetery at Maiden, Mass...
...trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael Curley came with his son to kneel beside the shrine. Last week the estimated attendance...
...newsprint makers, notably International Paper Co., have been going into the business of selling waterpower to make a side profit, and buying newspapers to ensure their market (TIME, Apr. 22, et seq.). The possibility of a price rise was cited by the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, convened last week at Asheville, N. C., as a potential menace. Said the publishers...
...Times) own their own paper mills. Most newsprint is bought from the great International (more than twice as big as its nearest competitor), from Great Northern Paper Co., Canada Power & Paper Corp., Abitibi Power & Paper Co. International is not making money on its pulp product but it denied last week that it was planning a price rise, professed ignorance of what the publishers' resolution might mean...
...citizen has ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature.* Last week's award did not break the 28-year-old rule. The Swedish Academy of Letters picked Germany's great Thomas Mann...