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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*Say the Friends: "We do not set anyone apart whose special duty it is to supply the spoken word in our meetings. . . . the experienced speaker should be watchful not to speak at undue length."-(The Book of Discipline.) The committee of overseers has the responsibility of insuring at each meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: God's | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Dire and inexorable figures were released, last week, by Great Britain's aristocratic Minister of Labor, Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, LL.D. Though it must have galled him to do so, Sir Arthur was obliged to announce that more Britons are now out of work than at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Not a Stitch, Not a Pair | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

2) The Casino Syndicate is corruptly concealing profits and nefariously neglecting public works which it has contracted to perform. Item: the electric plant frequently breaks down. Item: so do the waterworks. Item: ditto the telephones.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Polignac v. Mon | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

In the Principality, embers of revolution were a-glowing. The first alarm was sounded when the Parliament of Monaco -called the National Council-resigned en masse. The second alarm was figuratively turned in by Monaco's one Minister of State, florid, flustered M. Louis Eugene Maurice Piette, after the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Polignac v. Mon | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

As the simple, believing rustic was dragged away, the "Son of Heaven" looked down compassionately through spectacles, from his great Louis XIV State Coach. Above the gorgeous vehicle a golden phoenix perched with wings spread-symbol of divine and inextinguishable Radiance. If the little slant-eyed man in spectacles really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Out Devils, In Luck! | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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