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Since the Mohammedans are perfectly within their legal rights, an extreme recourse was resorted to last week, by Abraham Isaac Kook. Chief Rabbi of Palestine. Weeping copious tears Colonel* Kook decreed a general fast day and renewed mourning by all Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Holy of Holies | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Tuttle possesses the accomplishment of wearing a high comb (occasionally diamond studded) with the authentic air of a peeress supporting a tiara. Such gracious poise, when supported by copious and persuasive League small talk, has converted many a Manhattan parson, brought round numerous editors and educators, and secured-hearty cooperation from dozens of distinguished persons who were not previously "League conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: New Figures | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Hindenburg then called to the Prime Ministry Herr Hermann Müller, prominent Socialist, onetime manual laborer, signer of the Versailles Treaty and head of an undistinguished Cabinet in 1920. Characteristics: slow, poor speaker; once radical, now moderate; humorless and schoolteacherish; dependable party man; has curbed a once copious taste for beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Notes on Crisis | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...week Dr. Stresemann was sick nigh unto Death. Therefore, in the minds of his countrymen, it was by no means disrespectful but instead highly laudable to discuss minutely the state of those organs which caused the trouble. The three physicians attending Dr. Stresemann responded to public demand with copious bulletins as exciting to some readers as the minutes of a horse race. Omitting technicalities, the kidney bulletins were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stresemann Tucked In | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Laborite MacDonald's righteous wrath. They found it in an editorial in the Laborite Daily Herald which observed: "The "greater portion of the readers of the evening papers are members of the working class, and if the Rothermere scheme is successful, the new papers will add to the copious stream of misrepresentation of the Labor movement which issues daily from the capitalist newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mind-moulding, Throat-cutting | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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