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Word: corpses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britain's welcome to the Soviet Ambassador, though delayed, was sumptuous. Two coaches from the royal stable carried the Communist party from their hotel to St. James's. Scarlet-coated footmen were on the box, Ambassador Sokolnikov, trying to look proletarian under his silk hat, sat inside with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Memory of a Cousin | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

"I met the General at a banquet in Texas ten years ago," said Printer Crawford, "and for the next three or four years I spent a few days every year with him at Juarez where he was a corps commander. He fled from Mexico when Federalist troops were trying to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

In 1917 he was appointed Governor of his home state, Michoacan, in 1923 Minister to Germany, in 1925 Ambassador to Brazil, at which time he was dean of the Mexican Diplomatic Corps. Returning to Mexico he announced that he would no longer use the title "General," and much was made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Washington Crash. For a pre-Christmas surprise to friends and family, three men planned a flight from Washington, D. C., to Massachusetts-Representative William Kirk Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Rogue & Gull. With a tale of having flown for the British Royal Flying Corps in Italy and of being a Carter of Cartersville, Ky., one Robert A. Carter, 32, intriguing fictionist, became managing editor of John B. Kelly's air-fiction magazine Wings. He "wrote" good stories which Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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