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...killed. Said he: "I have found all iron ore mines I have visited in New Mexico unsafe. There is a law regulating coal mine safety, but none relating to iron ore mines. I am going to do everything possible to get proper legislative measures in New Mexico to compel mine owners to safeguard employes...
...seller Wilhelm Hohenzollern, The Last of the Kaisers (TIME, March 21, 1927) is being dramatized for simultaneous production in Manhattan and Berlin this winter. Last winter Berlin courts sustained a suit for injunction against Communist Producer Edwin Piscator (TIME, Dec. 26), which was brought by Wilhelm of Doorn to compel censorship of a stage "Kaiser" from whose mouth came drooling and silly words, punctuated by posturings...
...practical suggestions ignored, and finally joined reluctant forces with Belgium's Leopold. Belated exposures of "Belgian Atrocities" in the Congo-true tales of Blackamoors whose hands were hacked off when they failed to bring in sufficient rubber or ivory-were utilized by the Powers to compel Uncle Leopold to grant them more favorable trading privileges in his Congo. Thereafter, as before, the fabulous wealth wrung from strumpeteered Mother Congo was lavished by Wicked Uncle Leopold chiefly upon public works* in Belgium ; secondarily upon his many and riotously extravagant mistresses; and lastly upon his Queen, Marie Henriette, "The Rose...
...pressure were employed by the Imperial Japanese Government against the new Chinese Nationalist State. The reason was that the Nationalists had just served notice that they will not extend or renew the Sino-Japanese commercial treaty of 1896, which grants concessions most advantageous to Japan. In an effort to compel the Chinese Nationalists to reconsider, the Mikado's Government took four drastic steps. First, it refused to take diplomatic cognizance of the Chinese note. Second it stated its determination to consider that the Sino-Japanese treaty continues in force (although the expiration date is two years past) by virtue...
Thus a Republican Secretary of State explodes the chief objection of the Republican Party to U. S. entrance into the League of Nations-namely that, if the U. S. entered, the League might, under famed Article Ten of the Covenant, compel U. S. males to fight punitive actions abroad...