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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen-Empress on their summer visit (TIME, Feb. 28). But the Socialists continued to fight and last week the Council reversed itself, voting, 25 to 11, that there will be no luncheon at public expense for Their Majesties. Tactful, George, V & Mary will dine privately with the Lord Provost of Glasgow on July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Gambols, Gambles | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Striking Development: 1) seizure of the $2,000,000 British cigaret factory at Hankow, last week, by the Chinese workers, egged on by the Nationalists, who announced that the factory will henceforth be run on Communist lines; 2) announcement by the Provost of Johns Hopkins University, Charles K. Edmunds, to Shanghai reporters that during a recent visit to Canton he formally relinquished control of the historic Canton Christian College to the Nationalists. "I personally welcome the transfer," said Mr. Edmunds. "The Chinese attitude is wholesome, and the Nationalist movement, at any rate in Canton, [where it originated] is promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Inglorious Victory | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...following men will participate in tonight's tournament: In the 115 pound class: N. M. Field 1L, H. E. Henchel '30, Milton Krook 3L, and B. F. Masseli '27: in the 125 pound class: J. R. Burns '29, G. H. Prosser 1L. G. W. Provost '30, M. F. Subiloff '28, A. J. Bronstein 2L, Milton Krook 2L, and G. H. Prosser 1L. W. A. Clementson '28, J. E. Evans '30, H. M. Kullman 127 and C. N. Levine '30 will wrestle for the 135 pound Championship. In the 145 pound divisior Aaron Dashoff '28, H. M. Kullman '27, Morris Michelson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLING TOURNEY TO OPEN WITH 35 ENTRIES | 3/26/1927 | See Source »

Justice Sir Horace E. Avory; John Withers, Member of Parliament for the university; Dr. Montague James, provost of Eton; Sir Walter M. Fletcher, secretary of the Medical Research Council, and Sir William Bragg, director of the Davy-Faraday research laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Precedent | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

About a year ago Sir Henry Lunn, rich, respected, wrote a personal letter to the Very Reverend, the Provost, St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, which recorded his life's result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sir Henry's Charity | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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