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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bondfield provoked the crisis by refusing a Left Laborite demand to add ?50,000 ($250,000) to the dole under the Government's Unemployment Relief Bill (TIME, Nov. 25). Then upon hobnailed feet rose sturdy John Wheately, a Scotsman from the industrial Clydeside slums of Glasgow, five years ago Minister of Health in the first MacDonald Cabinet...
...other Clydesiders-fiery Jimmy Maxton, carrot-haired George Buchanan, dour David Kirkwood. Amid Tory cheers and then a dead hush Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin edged over for a tense, whispered conference with Liberal David Lloyd George. If the Welshman agreed to go in with Baldwin, as he did fortnight ago on the picayune messenger boys issue (TIME, Dec. 9), then the MacDonald Cabinet was as good as done. But Mr. Lloyd George is peculiar. Like the Heathen Chinee, he and his Liberals sat impassive, refused to go into either division lobby, abstained from voting. Scowling, the Conservatives followed the Clydesiders...
...months ago the Polish Sejm (Parliament) attempted to convene. Ninety officers with clanking sabres and big black pistols stomped into the building. The Dictator of Poland, Military Josef Pilsudski, and his chief opponent. Civilian Marshal Ignacy Daszynski, snarled at each other across a table. The Sejm adjourned (TIME, Nov.11...
Fifty-nine years ago when ten-month-old Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, swung a royal rattle, and 13-year-old Achille Ratti declined irregular verbs in a Milan seminary, the troops of small Vittorio's grandfather, Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia, recently proclaimed King of Italy, stormed and breached the walls of the Papal city of Rome...
...north they suffered a supreme humiliation. Governor General Chang Hsueh-Liang of Manchuria Province capitulated through his emissaries at Nikolsk-Ussiriisk, Siberia, to the emissaries of Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovich Litvinov. Cowed by the Red Army's raid into Manchuria three weeks ago, Governor General Chang humbly agreed that the Chinese Eastern Railway shall again be placed under the management of Soviet citizens, as it was before China booted out the Reds last summer (TIME, July 22). In return the Soviet Government agreed to cease propagandizing in Manchuria, but no Chinaman believed that this promise will...