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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smooth, likable, cautious, Ambassador Castle was graduated from Harvard (1900), served his college as instructor and assistant dean for seven years, edited the Graduates Magazine for two more. During the War he was Director of Communications for the Red Cross. He entered the State Department ten years ago, served as chief of the Western European division until his appointment in 1927 as Assistant Secretary of State...
...time when 200 segregated prisoners, under special watch for taking part in the attempted break and prison-burning less than five months ago (TIME, Aug. 5), were supposed to be having lunch. They were not eating. Some of them had handcuffed six guards and marched them back to the punishment cells to set free their comrades. They had sent a message to Warden Jennings and he was there now, manacled and trembling, a white-haired man with a lined, anxious face, a hostage. The prisoners waited for their leader, Convict Henry Sullivan, to tell them how the guards and troopers...
South Sea Rose (Fox). As a French girl brought up in the South Seas and taken to New England by a skipper who marries her for her money, Lenore Ulric talks the same baby gutturals she used a couple of weeks ago in Frozen Justice, but the meaning of her husky drawling voice does not depend on words and is the same in any language. The story is an aimless, overkeyed triangle. Best shot: a simple-minded jazzbo having a fit when checked in his efforts to get near the South Sea Rose...
...After disturbances a fortnight ago Haiti was last week quiescent. Political organizations asked President Hoover to supply U. S. supervision for the April elections, as was done last year in Nicaragua. Arrests were only for violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...
...weeks ago blue-eyed Princess Ileana of Rumania ran her small yacht . on a sand bank in the Black Sea and waited, fogbound, fog-frightened, until rescued by a gunboat from Constanta. Last week, fog-free and thankful, she presented a handsome silver candelabrum to the many domed Cathedral of Constanta. Her pious inscription...