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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I hold that it is the best policy to speak the unvarnished truth. I have found a pleasant atmosphere in the discussions so far. Nevertheless, I have had difficulty. Often I am reproached at the conference that I take everything too seriously and that I see everything too gloomily-but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Unvarnished Schacht | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Leaning forward in a carved armchair at the Palazzo Chigi, Signor Benito Musso- lini sat with his hard chin cupped between contented palms, last week, watching newsreel flashes of Cardinals and Monsignors marching to the ballot box (TIME, April 1), attended by blaring brass bands and wildly cheering throngs. Never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: 98 28/100% Pure | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

A waste of breath would be to rehearse the villainy of Chang, his cupidity, his habit of snatching concubines out of perfectly nice Chinese families. The man is a double-dyed dastard. As military gov- ernor of Shantung Province under the late, great War Lord Chang Tso-lin (TIME. July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five Bars Hoisted | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Identical twins, born of the same egg,* are seldom reared separately. Hence Horatio Hackett Newman, professor of zoology & embryology at the University of Chicago, rejoiced last week because he had such a pair under observation: two 19-year-old girls called discreetly A and O. They were born in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two of a Kind | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Competition. So complete, so thoughtfully lucid is the White Act, that its meaning could not be twisted to meet the desires of the most ingenious mergophile. If the union of I.T.&T. with R.C.A. Communications will "substantially lessen competition," the Lamont-Young deal will be held a violation of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Breathless Behns | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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