Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rouge to issue his orders, had played hob with the State's appointive boards and commissions. For ten months his opponents cringed before him, treasuring their grievances. Last week the gusty wind of popular favor veered 180 degrees and a hurricane of public condemnation swept down upon the young man who styled himself the "Kaiser of Louisiana...
...Death of whom, young...
...Bremen and the Europa, expected to be fastest in the World (TIME, Aug. 27). There was a great swelling throb of joy in the solemn throat of Old Paul von Hindenburg as he launched the Bremen with these words: "Seventy years ago [when President Hindenburg was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . . Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. . . . I hail the Bremen and the Europa as new links...
Boxing in Chicago seems to be develop- ing ramifications not covered by the Marquis of Queensberry in his rulebook. Last week Jackie Fields,* sleek Chicago Hebrew, and Young Jack Thompson, flashy San Francisco Negro, were pummeling each other about a ring there for what the promoters insisted was "the world's welterweight championship." They had reached the eighth round when two men, not pugilists, started a fight of their own in the balcony. One drew a revolver. Nearby spectators scrambled away. In a moment there was general pandemonium. One whisper said: "Race riot." Another said animals quartered nearby...
Last week, in Paris, Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lamont agreed with Chairman Owen D. Young of the Radio Corp. of America that it would be pleasant for all concerned if the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. should take over Radio's newborn (TIME, April 1) subsidiary, R.C.A. Communications, Inc. So formal and so important was this friendly agreement that it at once was called an ACCORD. A price was mentioned, around $100,000,000. Vice President David Sarnoff of Radio and Nelson Dean Jay of Morgan's Paris house talked details. U. S. directors of both companies hastily met and approved...