Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Peace Prizer Briand's dander was now up, he digressed completely, to flay the many critics of the new, secret Anglo-French military-naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13). Everyone now knows that the existence of the agreement was revealed through an incredibly stupid British blunder; and a further piece of British folly has been to keep the text dark after the fact of its existence leaked. Passion tinged the rich tones of Briand's voice as he cried: "France and Great Britain have been working together for the peace of the world, and have been singularly unfortunate...
...columnist-editor Arthur Brisbane, last week, when the notorious, cruel, rapacious General Chang Tsung-chang put his back to the Great Wall of China and prepared for a last stand against the immensely superior armies of the new Chinese Nationalist Government, which now claims to dominate all China (TIME, Aug...
...which was first of the Great Powers to recognize Nationalist China de facto (TIME, Aug. 6) set Oct. i, 1928 last week as the tentative date for ceremonies amounting to recognition de jure. On that day U. S. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr. of the U. S. Yangtze River Patrol proposes to fire a salute, off Nanking, the Nationalist Capital, which will signify that the U. S. Consulate at Nanking has been reopened and normal Sino-U. S. relations resumed...
...FRONT PAGE−Pretty speeches from police-court reporters covering the jailbreak of a half-witted murderer, combined with the efforts of one of the reporters to get married before the last edition goes to press (TIME, June 4, Aug...
Down, down, down go earnings of U. S. automobile tire makers (TIME, Aug. 27). And down, down, down go the prices of tires. To leading companies, U. S. Rubber and the "biggest" Goodyear Tire & Rubber, last week announced a 20% slash in the cost of second grade tires, meeting a similar reduction by Firestone Tire...