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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in ancient Magnesia (called Minissa by modern Turks) irate coffee house owners banged shut the doors of their coffee houses, bolted, barred and made them fast...
...Dictator's decree, a tax equivalent to two U. S. cents has been laid on each cup of coffee served in a Turkish coffee house. Dictator Kemal, not pious, tipples champagne frequently. So potent is he, however, that last week only ancient Magnesia resisted the coffee tax. In all Turkey, only Magnesian coffee houses were shut...
...this Colossus of Britain were a monstrous swindler and a mean cheat, what Court, what Law would be so mighty as to overawe or punish him? Last week in the ancient, musty Guildhall of London, Lord Kylsant was brought to trial before a man even more impressive than himself. Without the consent of this awful man (always readily granted) the King of England himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great...
...Ancient though it is. Exeter is changing today more rapidly than any other prep school. For last November Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, no Exeter man, gave $7,000,000 for a House plan, salary increases, and new dormitories (TIME, Dec. 1). Also active was the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, who spent much of his great mining wealth in giving Exeter a big modern gymnasium, athletic, science and administration buildings and, last year, $1,000,000 more (TIME, April 14, 1930). At present the school has, in addition to these, some 650 students from far & wide, 65 teachers, many handsome...
...ancient peoples of Central Europe are important also for other reasons than their immediate effect upon our own forefathers; for both Greece and Italy were repeatedly overrun by invading tribes in very early times, most of whom came from the North, and the Greeks and Romans were to a considerable extent the descendants of these northern invaders. He who would understand the origins, as well as the downfall, of classical culture must turn his eyes to the restless barbarians of Central Europe