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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time since trust-busting was a front-page activity of the U. S. Government. Last week, however, three potent U. S. corporations found themselves involved in anti-trust proceedings. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell filed suit against Warner Brothers and William Fox and announced a general investigation of the pooled patents held by Radio Corp. of America. This announcement closely followed a ruling in which the U. S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, declared that Radio Corp. was following monopolistic practices in its licensing policy...
...when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily. Great bonfires of straw were burned to "purify" the Place de la Concorde. From German Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and Coblenz the last Belgian and French troops marched out last week. There were bonfires on the Rhine hillsides, but no expectoration. Rhinelanders waited until the last troop trains had gone, then young folk danced in rain wet streets, old folk breathed an earnest Gott Sei Dank! The Second Zone of Allied Occupation was free...
...José Sanchez Guerra was Prime Minister of Spain shortly before General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera seized dictatorial power (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). Don José soon and ostentatiously went into "voluntary exile" at Paris, proclaimed that he did so in protest against Dictator Primo de Rivera's suppression of the Cortes (parliament). Even in exile Don José remained the acknowledged leader of Spain's parties of the Left. Last January his followers perfected elaborate plans to stage simultaneous risings of Spanish garrisons on a certain day. On that day Exile José Sanchez Guerra was to land at Valencia, proclaim...
...initial performance of the Cercle Francais this year will be given tonight at 8.30 o'clock at the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston. Two plays will be offered by the organization: "Le Coeur a Ses Raisons", by Caillavet and Flers, and "Poil de Carrotte", by Renard...
...former, in which the leading role is taken by Miss. Helen Streeter, tells the story of two suitors, both of whom are in love with the same lady. The resulting complications furnish an amusing one act comedy. "Poil de Carrotte," in which Miss Kathleen Shaw plays the title role, is a domestic tale of a child who is not understood by his mother...