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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ The President made clear that his Prohibition Investigating Commission is to consider how best to enforce the law, not whether it should be repealed. He said in answer to press questioners: "It [the Commission] is intended to cover the entire question of law enforcement and organization of justice." The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Honor of a Call | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Finally last week the delegates achieved sufficient unity to issue a joint mimeographed statement-the first released since the Second Dawes Committee assembled. Though couched in the most general terms, it was well calculated to quiet fears that the new Bank of International Settlement will prove a dangerous competitor of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Nice House | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

"Among the European delegations it is realized clearly," said the Voegler-controlled Zeitung "that the Second Dawes Committee will not bring a definite settlement of the Reparations problem, but that a relatively favorable partial solution can be counted upon which will take account of the interests of all concerned. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Nice House | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Last week, a young Japanese named Furoda made up his mind that he had been extraordinarily insulted. Japanese of the Old School understood, sympathized. They were glad that at least one young man had the spunk to consider himself insulted by the frequent radical utterances of notorious Senji Yamamoto, loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Such Vulgarity! | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

If this idea takes its proper grip upon the nation's populace the Tiger will have a big jump on all its competitors. As the crop of Woodrow Wilson Joneses matures this year and begins to consider which college to favor and why, the result is sure to be fore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TIGER SWELLS HIS CHEST | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

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