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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Replying to the letter of Alfred Cottle [TIME, Aug. 30] concerning lies, I wish to state that as far as I know, TIME did not lie when speaking of Fords as "road bugs...
...paragraph on "Smoke Photography" which appeared on p. 16 of the Aug. 30 issue is not quite accurate. The film, which is sensitive to infra-red rays, which penetrate haze (scarcely smoke), is sensitized with "kryptocyanine." This dye is not a secret in spite of its name; it was discovered by Adams and Haller at the color laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry in 1919 and is made in our laboratories by Dr. H. T. Clarke. After many attempts we have succeeded in using it for sensitizing film...
...French militarists. There are those who have even dubbed him the arch plotter of the World War.† There is no question that it was he, as Premier (1922-24), who sent French troops to occupy the Ruhr. Yet last week M. Poincare, once again created Premier (TIME, Aug. 2), began to clip and prune the French Army, in the interest of national economy to save the franc...
...With these pledges of support in his pocket almost any potent Greek can declare himself Dictator. General Theodore Pangalos seized power in exactly this way (TIME, July 6, 1925), and held on for 13 months. His successor, General Kondylis, accomplished his coup by methods equally simple and unconstitutional (TIME, Aug. 30). Therefore sophisticated persons were not surprised to learn that while riots and rebellious outbursts occurred generally throughout Athens last week they were most frequent near the central telegraph office...
Down the ages has come a sage maxim: "Beware the Greeks...." At Athens last week, representatives of the local Merchants Board deposed and swore that during the 13-month regime of the now deposed Dictator President Pangalos (TIME, Aug. 30), Mme. Pangalos regularly imported (smuggled) silk into Greece, duty free, under diplomatic seals, and disposed of it through a modiste related to General Pangalos. He, approving his wife's peccadillo, issued a decree forbidding the importation of silk as a measure of national economy. Thus Mme. Pangalos enjoyed a total monopoly, is said to have tripled the presidential stipend...