Word: tutankhamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story at all. What it seemed to think it had was the discovery of a 3,000-year-old civilization in Kentucky. The Chicago Daily News had sent Reporter Robert J. Casey to view some diggings at Wickliffe, Ky. Thence he wired excited reports of "The American equivalent of Tutankhamen's tomb"; "evidence that a people had mastered the elements of community life and government while Babylon ruled the known world"; ". . . its mystery is one with Angkor and Karkemish. . . ." By every definition of news such a report, if true, should have been splashed across every front page...
...mansion, Mrs. McCormick never spent a night out of it until she went to a hospital in 1930. No guest ever spent a night in it. She became more imperious, more eccentric. She practiced astrology, celebrated Christmas on December 15. She believed in reincarnation, decided she had been King Tutankhamen's child-wife Anknesenpaaten. "Then they opened the mummy chamber and when I saw the pictures of it, I knew. There was my little chair." She wrote the words to a Love Song Cycle and a play in Italian, collected Persian rugs. She took daily walks, always over the same...
...anxious days of the Hoover Moratorium, Germany's financial crisis and the first emergency credit for Britain, the House of Morgan, France's bank in the U. S., was as silent as the tomb of Tutankhamen. Observers noted how quickly the name of Morgan popped into the headlines now that there was no question of conflicting with French policies. Morgan headed the list of 110 U. S. banks which underwrote the U. S. half of the loan. Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, Deputy Controller of Finance, flew to Paris and arranged details of the other $200,000,000 with...
...issue of TIME appeared a statement in reference to the Canadian wheat situation that when the Royal Tomb of Tutankhamen was opened in 1922 some wheat grains and other foods were found; that in 1926 a friend sent a few of the grains to Farmer Sydney Cunningham of Alberta, who in turn sent grains produced by his original "King Tut wheat" to Farmer Charles Borry, who grew new wheat from a crop produced by the original old grains...
...Farmer Charles A. Bony. "Not that it's the best wheat!" said he, "It's soft and won't fetch much of a price. But there's no other wheat hereabouts that sprouted from grain sealed up 3,000 years ago in the coffin of Tutankhamen...