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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became operative last year, establishing The International Wine Bureau, in Paris. Although the treaty was duly deposited with the League of Nations, it has never been officially printed. But perhaps its quasi-secret text came last summer under the eye of John Davison Rockefeller III, undergraduate grandson of John D. Rockefeller I, who worked during vacation as an information clerk at the Secretariat of the League of Nations (TIME, July 16), peered into many a document, and returned in September to Princeton-where even charladies know that the House of Rockefeller is firmly...
...Regency apparently acted in the belief that Peasant Leader Juliu Maniu, who staged gigantic mass demonstrations last spring (TIME, March 26), might attempt a revolution or coup d'état capable of toppling down not only the Tycoon but the Throne. To forestall this the Regency proposed to call Peasant Maniu to the Prime Ministry. So cataclysmic were events in Rumania, last week, that any prediction seemed mere folly. The fact that international financiers will now almost certainly refuse to underwrite the vitally needed National Loan, unless the Regency recalls Vintila Bratiano to the Prime Ministry, seemed the chief...
White folks at Monte Carlo were enviously agog, last week, at the luck of a tall, tawny young woman who won prodigiously at Baccarat, cashed in her chips, stuffed into the décolleté bosom of her gown a bulging bundle of 1,000 franc notes, and whirled out upon the dance floor in the arms of one Earl Leslie...
...misread the public mind twice, Alfred Emanuel Smith announced he was through with politics, for good. Friends offered mansions for him to rest in. Until January 1 he has his gubernatorial mansion at Albany. Said a colyumist, referring with admiration to the Smith campaign: "I'd rather be Smith than President...
...Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...