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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Creation of a European system of gold reserve banks, as proposed by Frank A. Vanderlip, famed U. S. financier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pan-Europe | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Then she was moved to insure the permanency of her creation by making the nation responsible for it. To generosity ($100,000 and $28,200 per annum) she had to add ingenuity, but she achieved her end. Now-for expense is no object-Europe is combed at her behest, native genius is more than ever encouraged and at least one art flourishes at the political but not the artistic U. S. capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Festival | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Meeting. A laughing green-clad woman stood upon the Dolphin's deck beside Sir Austen. She was the onetime Ivy Muriel Dundas, his wife - by royal creation a Dame of the British Empire (TIME, Dec. 14). When the purple orchids were handed on board she pinned them bravely upon her green dress. With the orchids came a card: "Benito Mussolini sends his kindest happy greetings to Lady Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Mediterranean Conference | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...London Daily News poll, which had thus far brought in 14,043 replies: 71% believe in a personal God, 72% in personal immortality, 75% in some form of Christianity, 63% regard the Bible as inspired, 71% voluntarily attend religious services regularly, although only 38% accept the Biblical story of creation as historical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity in England | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...gradient leading up to Mr. Wells' deepest concern, the future of mankind after its scientific emancipation. In his pseudo-scientific novels, several of which he laid in that far future, he felt the cramp of plot and character relations. So while he calls his latest creation* a novel, it stays little closer to the usual kind of thing meant by that term than did James Joyce's Ulysses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wells, Wells, Wells | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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