Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flame starting thin and blue at the corner of a sealed envelope, then spurting up yellow, crawling to the other corners, leaving a big curly cinder, transfixed the attention and curiosity of three high officials of the Salvation Army in a London barrister's office last week. The envelope was the one in which, last year, the late General William Bramwell Booth enclosed the name of the person whom he had chosen to succeed him as worldwide commander of the Army. None dared open the envelope for the dissension it might cause. Some think he named his daughter Catherine...
...Last week's burning was symbolic of the final, legalized defeat of the Booths. Shortly before, a high court had ordered the Booth executors to turn over Army trust properties valued at $5,000,000 to General Higgins as representative of the new regime...
...home than they used to be. There's less chance for fighting, for getting dirty, for catching cold in the Bus than there was when children went by foot. But also, though the Bus driver is a man carefully chosen for steadiness and reliability, there is danger. Last week, horrid tragedy fell upon the School Bus at Berea, Ohio, 13 mi. from Cleveland...
...Last week the Federal Trade Commission announced a victory. A certain tobacco company, which the Commission was careful not to name, had agreed to "cease and desist forever" from allegedly unfair methods of competition. The Commission objected particularly to the testimonials in this company's advertising and to its advertising advocacy of cigarets as an aid to slenderness. "Advertising matter [of this company]," reported the Commission, ". . . contained a testimonial or indorsement purporting to be that of certain actresses in a musical show who were credited with the statement to the effect that through the use of respondents' cigarets...
Notable 1929 reports issued last week included...