Word: discussional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surrender. Exhausted by his long losing fight, Generalissimo Reed Smoot wearily hoisted the truce flag and in a thin voice announced his terms of surrender. Admitting that he and his Old Guardsmen were beaten, he said: "The Senate should take a recess. . . . Let the coalition agree upon amendments. . . . Let the...
A shrewd mob psychologist is Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward, George V's Prime Minister in New Zealand.* Compulsory military training has lately been a hot subject for discussion in the Antipodes. Last fortnight Australia's new Labor Government abolished compulsion (TIME, Nov.11). Before the issue could...
Bits of news about last fortnight's Chicago opera opening had post-mortem discussion last week, concerned the following:
*Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso...
The list of those who will take part in the coming meeting reflects both the importance and the purposes of the Society. A round table discussion of "The Money Market in 1929", to take only one example, can hardly fail to be stimulating and instructive under the leadership of Mr...