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Sir Oswald Mosley, M. P. and his rich wife, also an M. P., are bright, ambitious young people, not over scrupulous. They are frankly out to grab the Prime Ministry for Sir Oswald when he is ten years older (he is now 33). At election times they are busy baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cabinet Totters | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Chiang has put off his going from day to day for over a month. So chaotic is the state of civil war throughout China-with disaffected "generals" constantly forming new combinations for and against the government-that the president has often not known from whence to expect attack. At one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Geographical Reasons | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Each became last week the theatre of a miniature civil war. Troops loyal to President Chiang battled with disaffected soldiery left over from the old regimes of the detested war lords who held sway over China like robber barons before the Nationalist conquest. To picture the situation in terms of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bad News | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Big, sleek, masterful Sir Joseph Ward completed, last week, a remarkable comeback to Power. He was last Prime Minister from 1906 to 1912. Prior to the Parliamentary Election of last month he welded disaffected groups into the new Union Party (TIME, Nov. 26), and when ballots were counted was found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Swing to Left | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Irked, irate, President George P. Johnson last week gave the disaffected employes a thoroughgoing reprimand: "The profit sharing is not necessarily a permanent plan. . . . To those that are dissatisfied with the results of last year's business I recommend a prompt resignation. . . . I wish such would quit. I am...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bonus Grumblers | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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