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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearly 750 years ago that traveling Plantagenet, Richard Coeur de Lion, on one of his infrequent visits to England, imported the white swan and decreed that it was a "bird royal," to be owned only by the king and a few favored nobles. Later this privilege was extended to two great medieval corporations, the Honorable Company of Vintners and the Worshipful Guild of Dyers. A ceremony was instituted, whereby representatives of the King, of the Vintners and of the Dyers were to row up the Thames each summer marking and dividing between them all the little brown cygnets which...
...seemed to be that severally and collectively the U. S., Britain, France and Japan had all admonished China with especial sternness. Though by no means sympathetic with Moscow, the Great Powers advised Nanking that the Chinese seizure of the Russian-staffed Chinese Eastern Railway (C.E.R.) in Manchuria, three weeks ago, was indefensible. The seizure, of course, provoked the crisis (TIME, July...
With producers scornfully silent, the loudest anti-Equity voice was Cinemactor Tully Marshall's. Fortnight ago, having accepted a non-Equity Warner Brothers contract, having flayed Equity in an inter- view, he and his employers were sued by Equity for $1,000,000 damages and an injunction to prevent his acting without Equity sanction (TIME, July 29). Last week he declared: "There are some who call me 'traitor. Well, if I'm a traitor, so was George Washington, who fought against taxation without representation. I will fight to the end against being forbidden to earn my living under a rule...
...made by Home Talkie Productions, Inc., giving a biology professor's lecture as if he were in a classroom. Most of the teachers attending the exhibit, which will remain open during August, were in Geneva for the Congress of the World Federation of Education Associations, begun six years ago in the U. S. by Dr. Augustus Orloff Thomas. State Superintendent of Public Schools in Maine and President of the Congress. While the aim of the Federation is to discuss the significant movements in education, this year it is being devoted especially to the promotion of peace through education. Prof...
...core of Gondwanaland went British scientists last week and met with Afrikanders. Gondwanaland is the hypothetical continent which ages and ages ago included South America, Africa and India. India drifted eastward. South America westward, leaving a continental core which civilized man only recently has gone to colonize and study...