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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Department was apparently relieved of one of its major difficulties with Cuba?the Tarafa Bill for the consolidation of Cuban railroads and heavy taxation of the private railroads and ports (TIME, Aug. 27, Sept. 3). The confiscatory taxation of the private sugar railways and ports was reported to have been eliminated, and the bill was passed after five hours of debate by the Cuban Senate...
...Italo-Greek dispute (caused by the murder of General Tellini and three other Italian members of the Greco-Albanian Boundary Commission near Janina in the Epirus on Aug. 27, and protracted by the subsequent occupation of Corfu and adjacent islands by Italian forces) hung fire while waiting for the report of the Council of Ambassadors' Inquiry Mission at Janina...
...Richard C. Cabot (TIME, Aug. 27) of the Harvard Medical School solemnly cautioned the clergy not to allow medical men to monopolize ministration to man's spiritual needs. He added: " It is not possible for a minister to attend properly to his parochial duties without a more thorough study of human personality than is given at the present time in any theological seminary...
Accordingly, publication of the company's unfilled tonnage as of Aug. 31 was eagerly watched for in Wall Street. The future business revealed by the Company's report was 5,414,663 tons, as against 5,910,763 for July 31; 6,386,261 for June 30; and 7,403,332 for the peak of demand on March 31, 1923. The high record since the War is 11,118,468 tons on July 31, 1920. This decrease of 496,000 tons, though not unexpected, was nevertheless disappointing...
According to a cable dispatch, an old gentleman of 80 recently climbed the dingy stairs to the students' salon. He carried a picture in his arm and asked to have it hung. The old gentleman was Claude Monet (TIME, March 17, Aug. 6). The picture was his reply to reports that, blind, he would never paint again...