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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor William H. Adams of Colorado, R. C. Dillon of New Mexico, George H. Dern of Utah and Frank C. Emerson of Wyoming interviewed the Arizona and California groups separately, then prepared a compromise. But again the two neighbor states disagreed, California refusing to accept the arbitrators' figures on Arizona's present vested rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: The Dry Quarter | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...into the death house; or to tell where he stood. He refused to give any factual information at all or to be photographed. The city editor of the Graphic said that Mr. Grey had told him he was in the death house, and that he had had to accept his word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Geneva | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

Fianna Fail: This party contains the other section of the original Sinn Fein party-those that refused to accept the Anglo-Irish treaty- and is led by Eamon de Valera. It is the principal Republican group in the Free State. Until a fortnight ago it steadfastly refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George were removed. It recanted from this stand, however, and took the oath as "a matter of form (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Politics in Ireland | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Dissent. Before these final reports were ready, the Most Rev. Germanos Troianos, Metropolitan of Sardis, arose to announce, gravely, politely, that he and his fellow representatives of Eastern Orthodoxy would be unable to accept the plan for unity. It was based on compromises, he said. It arrived only at "an external agreement, in letter alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Lausanne | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

President Robert E. M. Cowie of the American Railway Express Co. last week announced the fulfillment of the promise that he made two years ago when the Federal air mail service was organized?that his company would accept the services of the first reliable company equipped to handle express by air. On Sept. 1, the American Railway Express Co. will start shipping packages on a 32½ -hour air express schedule between Manhattan and San Francisco. Intermediate stops for delivery and receipt of goods have been set for Cleveland, Chicago, Iowa City, Des Moines, Omaha, North Platte (Neb.), Cheyenne, Salt Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Express | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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