Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French editors have grown daily more apoplectic at the hardihood of Turkey in detaining under arrest in Constantinople one Lieutenant Desmons (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante) commander of the French steamer Lotus which collided some weeks ago with a Turkish cargo boat on the high seas...
That the Dictator Premier considers his power appreciably bolstered by the plebiscite was seen last week when he telephoned King Alfonso XIII and asked if the monarch would pardon several artillery officers implicated in the recently suppressed mutiny against the Government (TIME, July 5 et ceq.). Replied King Alfonso over the telephone, "Si! I will pardon them." Forthwith the mutineers' sentences (one, the death penalty) were commuted...
...Then a despatch reported that the Yaqui have been forcibly prevented by the Calles Government from making their usual pilgrimage to certain of their (Catholic) shrines. Allegedly their attack upon Obregon was intended as a reprisal for the Mexican Government's suppression of the Church (TIME, Feb. 22 et...
Prince Chichibu, though he turned the compliment deftly, may well have felt a smouldering pride at the thought that no personage of the blood imperial is known to have equaled his achievement in scaling nine of the principal mountains of Europe.* (TIME, Aug. 30, et...
...Mexican Episcopate issued last week a pastoral letter signed by Archbishop Jose Maria Del Rio in which the encouragement of Pope Pius XI was extended to the Catholics of Mexico, embattled against the enforcement of the anti-religious Mexican Constitution by President Calles (TIME, Feb. 22 et...