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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Action was confined to two definite announcements. The Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague set Oct. 22 as the date to decide (at the request of the Assembly of the League of Nations) whether the League Council has authority to adjudicate the Mosul matter. Meanwhile the Council of the League despatched General Laidoner, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Esthonian Army, at the head of a League commission to investigate British charges that the Turks have been deporting Christians over the Mosul frontier...
...resigned President protested that Colonel Ibanez should not hold a portfolio while a candidate for the Presidency. The Colonel continued to await the election date, Oct. 24; clutched his portfolio none the less tightly...
...many millions of dollars have to be paid out by New York banks in cashing bond coupons due on that date, and also dividend checks issued on stocks. Very often this sudden though temporary demand for funds by New York banks, coupled with the need of sending funds west to move the crops, creates a temporary money shortage on and just before Oct. 1. So it turned out this year, and call money on the Stock Exchange-;-the most sensitive part of the American money market-rose to 6% quite suddenly...
...aghast at the impertinence of the King's Way theatre in London in producing "Hamlet" in modern settings and modern costumes. In this production the melancholy Dane himself wore a well-tailored pair of knickerbockers. Ophelia went raving mad in the old regrettable fashion, even though quite up to date with a boyish bob and scandalously short skirt; and Laertes proved himself an adept at inhaling cigarettes. On the face of it, the play thus produced appeals as a clever burlesque; yet the producers seem to have been quite serious, being convinced that, after the first shock, Shakespeare would suffer...
Saturday, October 10, is the last day on which courses beginning in the first half can be changed by undergraduates. All men who are allowed to add or drop a course after this date will be liable to a charge of five dollars...